Space Force's is to allow for "increased trust in industry" to assess their own systems' cybersecurity needs, "while doing due diligence" in reviewing whether those assessments are reliable, said Jared Reece.
Services bought from industry eventually "could include everything from a piece of hardware to the operations center to the bandwidth," Brig. Gen. Rob Collins told the SATELLITE 2021 conference today.
DoD investments in small satellites to date are mostly in the realm of communications and remote sensing, says OUSDR&E's Doug Schroeder.
SWAC is not duplicating the functions of the joint DoD-IC Space Security and Defense Program, argues Gen. DT Thompson.