The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is accelerating its use of commercial technology and launch services to strengthen U.S. space capabilities amid rapid changes in the industry, NRO Director Chris Scolese said Thursday. […]

The U.S. Space Force is expanding warfighter access to commercial space services by launching a new working capital fund, projected to exceed $1 billion annually, to help military users purchase services such as commercial satellite communications. […]

The U.S. Space Force’s Commercial Satellite Communications (COMSATCOM) Office (CSCO) has big plans for fiscal years 2025 and 2026 to launch a new era of satellite communications. […]

The U.S. military is leaning into utilizing “megaconstellations” – which consist of large numbers of distributed satellites – to provide service branches with critical capabilities against adversaries, according to Gen. James Dickinson, who heads U.S. Space Command. […]

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) plans to select multiple providers of radio frequency (RF) data collected by commercial satellites to provide government analysts access to unclassified data collected by commercial satellites, an agency official said on Aug. 25. […]

The U.S. Space Force has rolled out new cybersecurity standards for commercial satellite operators to give satellite companies an incentive to bolster their security. […]

Reps. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., and Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., on April 28 introduced companion legislation to a Senate bill offered earlier this year that would task Federal agencies with helping the commercial satellite sector improve the security of their networks. […]

Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, introduced legislation last week to protect commercial satellites from cybersecurity threats. […]