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Industry representatives meeting with Commerce Deputy Secretary Don Graves on Tuesday "stressed the need for [Commerce] to work quickly to field the new capabilities — ideally by buying and redistributing existing commercial products — in order to maintain leadership in the face of competing SSA offerings from the EU and China," a Commerce official told Breaking Defense today.

By   Theresa Hitchens on April 19, 2021 at 12:54 PM Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO), DARPA image WASHINGTON: DARPA’s effort to develop nuclear ‘engines’ for far-roving satellites also hopes to demonstrate the capability to keep “timely” tabs on spacecraft operating near the Moon, says program manager Maj. Nathan Greiner. While cislunar surveillance doesn’t require nuclear-propulsion, such a spacecraft could move more rapidly into position to monitor tar...

"While our adversaries have rapidly advanced a great spectrum of threats ... that are intended to defeat US space capabilities, were only beginning to get our act together," said Jeff Gossel, senior intelligence engineer at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC). By   Theresa Hitchens on April 14, 2021 at 3:36 PM