DARPA Drops $38M on Virtual Satellite Network
DARPA is not afraid to drop huge amounts of money on projects that sound pretty far out at times. DARPA’s most recent project has it spending $32M dollars to develop technology to allow for a virtual satellite network.
DARPA announced this week that it awarded contracts for the first phase of its Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft United by Information Exchange (System F6) program (PDF). The contracts were awarded to Boeing in the amount of $12,891,049, Lockheed Martin Space Systems for $5,762,781, Northrop Grumman Space & Mission Systems Corp for $6,159,866 and to Orbital Sciences Corp for $13,648,758.
