Space Force taps 14 firms for $1.8 billion GEO surveillance program

WASHINGTON — The U. S. Space Force selected 14 companies to compete for contracts under a new $1.8 billion procurement of satellites and supporting technologies to monitor activity in geosynchronous orbit.

The selected vendors span a mix of established defense contractors and newer space firms: Anduril Industries, Astranis, BAE Systems, Space Mission Systems, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, Intuitive Machines, L3Harris Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Millennium Space Systems, Northrop Grumman, Quantum Space, Redwire, Sierra Space, True Anomaly and Turion Space.

The program known as Andromeda is structured as a $1.8 billion, 10-year contracting vehicle managed by Space Systems Command. It establishes a pool of vendors that will compete for task orders to design and build spacecraft and supporting systems.