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Space Force awards $17.4M SBIR to True Anomaly for Space Domain Awareness

True Anomaly emerged from stealth and is scaling space-security and space-sustainability capabilities, including a GravityWorks manufacturing facility. The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command awarded a $17.4 million Phase III SBIR contract under Space Domain Awareness, supporting continued development and operational demonstrations.

Discovered 2026-04-12T13:06:21.644333-07:00 | 2026-04-12T13:06:21.644333-07:00

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The $17.4 million Phase III SBIR award ties True Anomaly’s space-domain awareness approach directly to U.S. Space Force priorities for detecting, tracking, and understanding activity in orbit.
It reinforces the broader procurement push for space-domain awareness architectures and commercial integration, following prior Space Force efforts such as the Andromeda GEO SDA competition (source:1eae8bd5-8bc6-4209-8ad1-0a517cc09003) and data-access steps for industry (source:c189bdc2-991c-469d-bcfc-374338f0d0c4).
The company’s stated manufacturing build-out and plan to demonstrate non-Earth imaging and proximity/RPO operations indicate a pathway from concept to on-orbit experimentation that could support future SDA capacity.

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