Air Force To Pump New Tech Startups With $10M Awards
The Air Force's new investment strategy is designed to "catalyze the commercial market by bringing our military market to bear," says Roper.
The Air Force's new investment strategy is designed to "catalyze the commercial market by bringing our military market to bear," says Roper.
"This is not based on ownership. We leave them their freedom."
Commercial space has many military applications, The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency relies heavily on commercial imagery supplied by DigitalGlobe satellites. The National Reconnaissance Office recently joined with NGA in something called the Commercial GEOINT Activity to buy commercial satellite imagery. A raft of companies are talking about building and operating satellites to provide imagery and other data. […]