The upcoming pilots will focus on satellite communications, small launch providers and tactical surveillance, reconnaissance and tracking.

The Space Force is also close to reaching agreements with the NGA and NRO on how to share roles and responsibilities for purchasing commercial satellite imagery and…

The Orbital Watch initiative comes as the Space Force explores how to better integrate commercial capabilities into its warfighting architectures and operations.

The Commercial Integration Cell looks to improve how the Space Force and commercial industry share classified information on threats in the space domain.

“There's a lot of commercial capability out there that we can leverage to increase our own resiliency at NATO. We want to be able to capture that,”…

The Space Force intends to have companies under contract for its Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve by 2025 or earlier, Col. Richard Kniseley said.

The document indicates that the military branch is looking for a range of “goods, services, and activities that support and integrate into a multifaceted hybrid space architecture.”

“We have to start knocking those things down. I think I’ve helped lead the way on that, but it’s not enough to open the floodgates,” John Plumb…

The new strategy outlines four broad priorities that the Pentagon will focus on to integrate commercial solutions into military operations.

The document will offer guidance for how commercial tech can be integrated into the Space Force and which capabilities industry can provide as a service, said Lt.…