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Space

Task Force 66 Chief Touts Commercial Satellite Benefits For Maritime Domain Awareness

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, August 27th, 2025

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Task Force 66 Chief Touts Commercial Satellite Benefits For Maritime Domain Awareness

Navy Rear Adm. Michael Mattis, commander of Combined Task Force-66. Photo: U.S. Navy

Commercial remote sensing data and imagery has proven to be useful in allowing the Navy to alert allies and partners to potential bad behavior in the maritime domain due to the unclassified nature of the technology, the Navy’s chief overseeing an effort to evaluate and integrate asymmetric capabilities said on Wednesday. Combined Task Force-66 earlier this year enabled the use of data from commercial space-based assets that was leveraged by an African partner nation to send a manned ship into…

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