The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) issued the MANASSAS prime contract under its F6 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) program, which aims to demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of disaggregated or fractionated network architectures in space

   Integral Systems’ Military and Intelligence Group (MIG) will support mZeal by developing standards for advanced concepts in satellite operations and design.

   “This work will include the real-time resource sharing middleware and cluster flight logic that can enable the emergence of a space ‘global commons’ that will enhance the mutual security posture of all participants through interdependence. A key program goal is the industry-wide promulgation of these open interface standards for sustaining and developing future fractionated systems,” Integral Systems said in a company statement.