Space Force gets vote on IC Commercial Space Council
The status change should give the Space Force more weight in debate about how to share acquisition authority for commercial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
‘On the table’: Hicks says DoD, IC considering indemnifying commercial space providers
"[T]he IC Commercial Space Council is discussing commercial protection right now. We had a meeting on Tuesday, and it came up," said NGA's David Gauthier, who chairs the council.
New GAO report will feed Space Force-IC ‘negotiation’ on space-based ISR
"As an agency, we've been pretty clear that there really isn't a material difference ... between tactical ISR or strategic ISR. It's just ISR. It's taking pictures from space," said Pete Muend, NRO's director of commercial operations.
Space Force team asks warfighters: What do you need from space ISR?
"Our goal is to ultimately develop a comprehensive set of needs and gap analysis with traceable documentation of the joint warfighter requirements for space," said Lt. Gen. Chance Saltzman, before investing in solutions.
After Satellite ‘Olympics,’ IC Rethinks Wary Stance On Foreign Commercial Data
US firms won "gold" in only three of the nine categories — the same number as China — in the NGA's "Commercial Imaging Olympics."