
The U.S. Space Force last week held its first ever war game that included more than a dozen commercial satellite participants to begin experimenting with the service’s framework to leverage commercial capacity when its own resources are stretched thin. The war game followed the award on March 1 of the first contracts under the Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR), with the initial four vendors providing capability for space domain awareness. Those awards are three-month pilot efforts for a “peacetime amount…