Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC)

An OTA Contracting Vehicle Designed to Support the U.S. Space Force

Take your prototypes further, faster.

SpEC works with you through every project stage to deliver mission-critical results when they’re needed most. Align your project scope and requirements to a customized acquisition strategy guided by our team of experts.

Operated through Space Systems Command (SSC), SpEC flips the script on traditional, FAR-based contracting options by speeding up prototype development, engaging non-traditional organizations and streamlining collaboration.

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Faster Time to Award

Increase the pace and quality of projects with SpEC’s customized proposal options and full-cycle project support.

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Prototyping Projects

The SpEC OTA has awarded 62 prototyping projects and facilitated the award of over $2 billion in obligated funds to date.

7K+

Active Innovators

SpEC’s diverse member network boosts respondent numbers and promotes integrated research and prototyping efficiencies.

SpEC helps you optimize and deliver Space Force capabilities, ensuring your lethal force can compete, deter, and win.

Success Story

Urgent Threat Response: Resilient GPS (R-GPS)

Utilizing Quick Start, the R-GPS team successfully earned Deputy Secretary of Defense approval, conducted market research, hosted an industry day, released a solicitation, and awarded initial contracts in under six months, far faster than traditional space programs that sometimes require up to three years. A mix of traditional and non-traditional defense space companies were selected for this initial award.

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Highlights
  • Provides resilience to military and civil GPS user communities
  • Complemented GPS constellation with proliferated small satellites
  • Plans to produce and launch up to eight satellite vehicles at a time via LEAPs

Success Story

Enterprise Space Terminal (EST)

Space Deltas

EST aims to enable on-orbit crosslink compatibility among future space systems via a standardized enterprise waveform in a long-range space optical communications terminal that is low size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C). ESTs are a key building block of the broader space data network known as MILNET, which will build a space mesh network for resiliency and information path diversity.

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Highlights
  • Enables on-orbit crosslink compatibility among future DoD space systems
  • Builds industrial base for long-range laser communications terminals
  • Provides diverse communication paths for data critical to national security

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