SOCOM to test SkyFi satellite imagery-to-tablet prototype
SkyFi's Sovereign Intelligence Platform for US Special Operations Command is designed to allow commanders in the field to task a commercial satellite for near-real time imagery.
NRO awards three new contracts for commercial satellite data
The head of the NRO's commercial programs, Pete Muend, suggested that spysat agency could vet the ability of commercial satellite firms to track airborne targets for the US Space Force.
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Voyager is fortifying the U.S. Defense supply chain
Answering the Pentagon’s call to bolster defense industrial base.
NATO investing $728M in new space capabilities, including a new ‘data lake’
NATO's collectively funded space efforts are focused on space domain awareness and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, Col. Jonathan Whitaker, who heads the NATO Combined Forces Space Component Command, told Breaking Defense.
NGA, Space Force ink accord on responsibilities for buying commercial ISR
Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman stressed that the commercial imagery the Space Force gathers will not be used directly for targeting, rather to allow commanders to rapidly understand evolving situations.
EXCLUSIVE: NGA awards new Luno A task order for commercial imagery analysis
NGA Director Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth confirmed that the agency and the Space Force are working on a memorandum of agreement that will set "procedures" to ensure that they don't duplicate commercial imagery products.
EXCLUSIVE: First Space Force civil reserve ‘pilot’ contracts go to 4 space watch firms
The Space Force is "still working through some issues or obstacles or challenges with industry," including clauses that would allow the Pentagon to direct a CASR participant to deny service to other customers, and when military users would get "priority of service," Col. Richard Kniseley told Breaking Defense.
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Space Force expands Commercial Integration Cell for industry cooperation
The five new CIC companies are BlackSky, Kratos, Leolabs, ICEYE and Telesat; Hawkeye 360 and Exoanalytic will join soon, a Space Force spokesperson told Breaking Defense today.
NRO speeding contracting to support commercial partners
Meanwhile, Meink said the spy agency is sticking to what it sees as its primary lane in the interagency division of labor for commercial acquisition: "procuring pixels."
SPACECOM expanding missions for multinational commercial space domain awareness cell
One of the JCO's new missions will be gathering what the Space Force calls tactical surveillance, reconnaissance and tracking data from commercial remote sensing satellite operators, said JCO head Barbara Golf.
Space Force chief: Commercial imagery analysis aided Niger withdrawal — just don’t call it ‘intel’
“This is about providing situational awareness [and] operational planning products,” Gen. Chance Saltzman told reporters as he talked up a pet program, TacSRT -- which some in the intelligence agencies say treads on their turf.
Space Force will ‘not support’ delays in ISR, tracking data to shooters: SpOC chief
Lt. Gen. David Miller, head of Space Operations Command, said the ongoing tussle with the Intelligence Community is like when dogs first meet in a dog park. "The dogs like spend five minutes sniffing each other's butts. That's the phase I think we're in. We just need to get off that," he said.
Space Force lays out 8 areas where it wants commercial firms to help out
The Space Force's new Commercial Space Strategy pledges real money towards buying commercial solutions, a long-standing concern from industry.
Space Force, IC’s battle over commercial ISR reignites as appropriators add fuel
More than a dozen sources tell Breaking Defense that tensions between the NGA and Space Force are rising on commercial ISR, with White House officials watching closely.