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Redwire subcontracts Voyager Technologies to deliver Acceleration Measurement System for DARPA Otter

Redwire has awarded Voyager Technologies a subcontract for its high-precision Acceleration Measurement System (AMS) under DARPA’s Otter program. The AMS is intended to support flight instrumentation requirements for the program’s first air-breathing spacecraft effort.

Discovered 2026-05-20T11:32:24.891056-07:00 | 2026-05-20T11:32:24.891056-07:00

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The Otter program is a DARPA technology development effort aimed at an air-breathing spacecraft, and this subcontract highlights the specific measurement/instrumentation work needed to validate flight performance.
The deal further illustrates how DARPA primes (like Redwire) are structuring space component supply chains around specialist measurement systems—context consistent with other DARPA-driven autonomy/transition efforts such as DARPA selects Aurora Flight Sciences to build vertical takeoff-and-landing X-Plane UAV.
For supplier strategy and program execution, the award shows Redwire’s continued use of subsystem partners (mirroring its broader space hardware integration approach, as in Moog selects Redwire to supply solar arrays for Meteor satellite program).

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