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Space

Federal Government Should Financially Protect Commercial Space Systems, Former NGA Official Says

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024

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Federal Government Should Financially Protect Commercial Space Systems, Former NGA Official Says

A Planet Labs' SkySat image of the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka Dam across the Dnipro River in Ukraine last June (Planet Labs Photo)

A former official at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) recently said that the federal government should offer a degree of financial protection for commercial space systems. "We have to have a financial incentive during peace time, during surge time, where the companies are getting additional contract purchases so that they can offset future costs of this capability," David Gauthier, the chief strategy officer at GXO, Inc. and the past director of NGA’s commercial and business operations, told Kratos' [KTOS] Constellations…

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