“Good to see how the Pentagon is creatively working to create public private partnerships to enhance national security capabilities.”
–Shruti Gurudanti, Rose Law Group partner and leader of the firm’s space law practice
By Sandra Erwin | Space News
The Pentagon’s technology arm is expanding an initiative to tap commercial satellites and infrastructure to deliver battlefield data faster and more securely.
The Defense Innovation Unit, an organization based in Silicon Valley that works with the tech industry to help fill military needs, announced May 12 it had added more than a dozen new companies to its Hybrid Space Architecture (HSA) project.
The HSA initiative, launched in 2022, brings together Earth imaging satellite operators, broadband providers, and companies specializing in cybersecurity, cloud computing, and quantum encryption. The goal is to create an infrastructure that ensures data from satellites is delivered to military users securely and without disruptions.
DIU is working on the project in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory, the U.S. Space Force and other military organizations.
The latest round of companies added to the project includes Capella Space, EdgeCortix, Eutelsat America Corp. OneWeb Technologies, Fairwinds Technologies and AST Space Mobile, Illumina Computing Group, Lockheed Martin Space, MapLarge, SES Space & Defense, Skycorp, SkyFi, Ursa Space, and Viasat.
