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Ukraine lets private air defense participants protect other companies’ sites under contract

New rules also allow manned aircraft in company air defense groups and expand opportunities to use interceptor drones by regulating companies’ use of warheads and electric detonators.

Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has approved rules allowing companies in its experimental private air defense project to protect other companies’ facilities under contract, the Ministry of Defence announced Nov. 4.1

Companies already in private air defense can protect other companies' facilities under a contract

experimental private air defense project

Companies already in private air defense can protect other companies' facilities under a contract, in addition to their own

Authorized companies may transfer air defense assets to one another for use based on a joint decision with the Air Force Command;

Private air defense continues to operate under the control of the military command and within the unified air defense system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Source: Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. As of November 4, 2026.

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Authorized companies may also transfer air defense assets to one another for use, based on a joint decision with the Air Force Command.1

The changes allow manned aircraft in company air defense groups. They also expand opportunities to use interceptor drones by regulating companies’ use of warheads and electric detonators.1

New participation criteria include Defence City resident status, designation by the Ministry of Defence as a critically important company, or both. The minimum age for members of company air defense groups falls from 21 to 18.1

The ministry said the groups began combat missions in spring 2026 and nearly 100 companies had joined the initiative by mid-October.1

Participants can take on a role as contracted protection providers for other businesses, while private air defense remains under military command within the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s unified air defense system. The ministry’s announcement does not explain how companies obtain aircraft or interceptor drones, or who pays for them.1

Sources (1)
  1. Ministry of Defence of Ukraine: Strengthening Ukraine’s private air defense, Government approves six key changes (Nov. 4, 2026) mod.gov.ua
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Contracts · Cyber infrastructure

DISA seeks cloud identity and access prototype for Department of War

Responses are due Nov. 30 for a commercial identity-management prototype. It would operate across IL5 and IL6 environments.

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is seeking a commercial, cloud-hosted identity and access management prototype to modernize the Department of War’s legacy identity infrastructure.1

DISA seeks solutions to prototype a Next Generation E-ICAM capability

Enterprise Identity, Credential, and Access Management (E-ICAM)

modernize legacy identity infrastructuremodular, cloud-hostedplanned

This effort will modernize legacy identity infrastructure with a modular, cloud-hosted commercial off-the-shelf/software-as-a-service solution operating across IL5 and IL6 environments.

The prototype must address the Federated Identity Provider, Automated Account Provisioning, Master Entitlement Record, and Federation Hub core capabilities.

Response deadline is Nov. 30, 2026, 5:00 p.m. America/Chicago (Monday)

Source: SAM.gov. As of Nov. 7, 2026.

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DISA is seeking the capability through a prototype Other Transaction opportunity linked to its competitive Commercial Solutions Opening.1–3

The Next Generation Enterprise Identity, Credential, and Access Management (E-ICAM) effort calls for a modular commercial off-the-shelf or software-as-a-service solution. The solution would operate across Impact Level 5 (IL5) and Impact Level 6 (IL6) environments. The prototype must address four core capabilities: Federated Identity Provider, Automated Account Provisioning, Master Entitlement Record and Federation Hub.1

Responses to the Area of Interest are due Nov. 30 at 5 p.m. Central.1

DISA’s Commercial Solutions Opening and any Other Transactions awarded through it are not subject to the Federal Acquisition Regulation or its supplements.3

Sources (3)
  1. SAM.gov notice record sam.gov
  2. SAM.gov notice history sam.gov
  3. SAM.gov: DISA Commercial Solutions Opening (HC108425S0001) sam.gov
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Contracts · Space

Viasat wins contract for Space Data Network’s mission operations hub

The award includes a $115 million initial task order to design, field and scale the center, under a contract with a $450 million ceiling.

Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded Viasat a competitive indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the Space Data Network Backbone’s Mission Operations Center, the command announced Nov. 5, 2026. The contract carries a $450 million maximum ceiling and a $115 million initial task order to design, field and scale the center.1

Viasat, Inc. will serve as the network and mission system integration partner

Mission Operations Center (MOC) for the Space Data Network Backbone

maximum ceiling$450 millionactual

contract to Viasat, Inc., with a maximum ceiling of $450 million

initial task order$115 millionactual

to design, field, and scale the MOC

Source: Space Systems Command, Nov. 5, 2026

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Viasat will serve as the network and mission system integration partner as SSC expands its open-architecture ecosystem across multiple space-segment providers. SSC plans to bring mission integration, network operations and data transport management together through the center.1

The effort builds on the multi-vendor acquisition strategy demonstrated in the Space-Based Sensing and Targeting portfolio’s earlier Delivery Order 2 and Delivery Order 3 work. That work involved Amazon LEO for Government, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Rocket Lab and York Space Systems.1

Breaking Defense reported that the center will serve as the network orchestration hub for the backbone, a low Earth orbit constellation being built by SpaceX. The network’s near-term focus will be supporting the Golden Dome missile defense initiative, the outlet reported.2

DefenseScoop reported that earlier this year the Department of War awarded SpaceX a $2.3 billion contract to deliver a fully operational backbone prototype by the end of 2027.3

The center is intended to integrate mission systems across multiple constellations and providers.1 Breaking Defense described network orchestration as autonomously shifting data among satellite constellations and ground stations when congestion or jamming slows transmission.2

Sources (3)
  1. SSC release, Nov. 5, 2026 www.ssc.spaceforce.mil
  2. Breaking Defense breakingdefense.com
  3. DefenseScoop defensescoop.com
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