U.S. military space architecture to bring in commercial systems, small satellites - SpaceNews

Many of the satellites, ground infrastructure and information systems that the U.S. Space Force will buy in the future will be developed by the private sector, officials said Aug. 5.

Col. Russell Teehan, portfolio architect of the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles, said commercially developed technologies will be part of the future capabilities of the U.S. Space Force.

Speaking on a SpaceNews online event, Teehan described a “notional operational architecture” for the systems and technologies that the U.S. Space Force envisions it will need in the future. The Space Force, which was established in December as the sixth branch of the U.S. military, is responsible to protect U.S. space assets and to provide space-based capabilities to U.S. and allied military forces.