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Space

Space Force Conducts First War Game For Commercial Reserve With Satellite Comm Providers

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025

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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…

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