
The intelligence community and U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) on Thursday released the executive summary of a new framework that outlines the roles and responsibilities of the government in helping to protect commercial space remote sensing providers that are under contract with the Defense Department’s National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The DoD and intelligence community are increasingly relying on imagery and other sensing data provided by commercial companies that have satellites in orbit to conduct Earth observation. In early August, the signing…