Under Senate’s Eye, NRO, NGA Stress Commercial Imagery Plans
"NGA expects unclassified space-based geospatial data to become ubiquitous and widely available," says NGA's David Gauthier.
New Satellite Imagery Rules Hover In Interagency Limbo
"You can't hide very well" in space, one industry official said, "So, I think the government is going to have to get over that, and recognize space is a free place."
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Next-generation C2 won’t be next-gen without the network transport
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
NRO Taps Start-Ups, Eager To Probe Commercial Tech
"To be quite honest most of our space systems are not the leading edge technologies," Troy Meink, head of GEOINT at NRO, said. "We've not kept up in many cases with the commercial environment."
Chinese Scarborough Shoal Base Would Threaten Manila
UPDATED with Sen. McCain & Dean Cheng comments WASHINGTON: If China builds an artificial island on the disputed Scarborough Shoal, Sen. Dan Sullivan warned today, it will complete a “strategic triangle” of bases that can dominate the South China Sea. At this morning’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Sullivan displayed a map (above) of the region […]