BAE wins DARPA deal to advance autonomous space surveillance

BAE wins DARPA deal to advance autonomous space surveillance

BAE Systems’ FAST Labs research and development arm has been awarded a $16 million Phase 2 contract under DARPA’s Oversight programme, which aims to build an autonomous system capable of maintaining continuous custody of large numbers of ground targets via proliferated satellite constellations. The award follows completion of Phase 1, where BAE integrated its software into a modelling and simulation environment to demonstrate persistent tracking…