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Space

Satellite Vendors Adapt to the DoD’s New Spiral Acquisition Model

By Vivienne Machi

Tuesday, April 11th, 2023

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Satellite Vendors Adapt to the DoD’s New Spiral Acquisition Model

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Two decades ago, few in the U.S. defense community considered using commercial satellite services for national security missions. Nor did they envision a future where thousands of small systems in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) would power telecommunications, provide missile tracking capabilities, and rapidly transmit space-based imagery. Over the past half decade, the tune at the Pentagon, along with its space procurement processes, have changed. After the Space Force was stood up in 2018 with its own budget authority, a handful of…

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