Iridium included in team awarded Space Development Agency contract

Iridium announced the Space Development Agency – SDA – has awarded the General Dynamics Mission Systems and Iridium team a $491.6M contract modification in support of its Ground Management and Integration program for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. Of this amount, Iridium’s share has a value of $239M over five years. This award follows an initial Operations and Integration Contract award in 2022 to build ground entry points and operations centers and manage network operations and systems integration services. Through this new contract modification, the GDMS-Iridium team will deliver a forward-compatible, state-of-the-art ground system developed in close partnership with SDA and related stakeholders.