The Pentagon's Space Development Agency Hasn't Moved as Fast as Anyone Would Like The establishment of the Space Development Agency (SDA) in 2019 was touted as a bold experiment to inject speed into the Pentagon's slow moving bureaucracy.
Seven years later, the agency is set to be dismantled, its mission absorbed by the reorganized Space Force procurement pipeline.
Lawmakers have backed this decision, but it raises questions about the viability of bureaucratic shake ups as solutions to military modernization.