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Space

Defense Department Space Industrial Base Report Recommends More Spending On Commercial Remote Sensing

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, April 8th, 2024

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Defense Department Space Industrial Base Report Recommends More Spending On Commercial Remote Sensing

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The U.S. government should expand its spending on commercial remote sensing and related data analytics to help this sector of the space industrial base grow, says a new report by the U.S. Space Force, Air Force Research Laboratory, and Defense Innovation Unit. “Gradually expanding budgets for commercial remote sensing efforts and keeping these budgets consistent year-over-year will help foster the growth of the U.S. and allied remote sensing sector,” says the report, State of the Space Industrial Base 2023, the…

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