What this Space Force RFI Reveals about Software Acquisitions

The Space Force Space Systems Command recently released an RFI for the Space Data Network (SDN) Mission Operations Center (MOC). On the surface, it reads like a broad market survey covering networking, satellites, operations, security and sustainment.

But read closely, and something else emerges: this RFI isn’t really asking what industry can build. It is asking how they think about delivering and evolving software in a highly uncertain, multi-vendor environment.

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