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Commercial Space Key for Domain Awareness, SPACECOM Commander Says

Commercial Space Key for Domain Awareness, SPACECOM Commander Says
U.S. Air Force Maj. Jason Brown and Lt. Col. Mike Johnson, 26th Space Aggressor Squadron space control operators, verify a satellite signal is being built correctly before broadcasting during a CRIMSON SKIES exercise at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo. on Oct. 31. The exercise focused on training wideband military satellite communication (MILSATCOM) operators and crews to identify, react to, and resolve adversary interference on the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) constellation, U.S. Space Command said (Department of the Air Force Photo)

Commercial space is becoming key for DoD to detect, analyze and respond to threats, a top official said on Nov. 29. "As of today, we've got about 120 commercial mission partners working with us," Army Gen. James Dickinson, the head of U.S. Space Command (SPACECOM), told a Mitchell Instititute for Aerospace Studies' Schriever Spacepower Forum. "We have a Commercial Integration Cell at Vandenberg Space Force Base [Calif.]--an area where commercial entities have operations consoles that are side-by-side with our military…

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