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Space Command Creates Office To Improve Coordination Of Commercial Efforts

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, April 19th, 2023

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Space Command Creates Office To Improve Coordination Of Commercial Efforts

Army Gen. James Dickinson, the commander of U.S. Space Command (U.S. Space Command Photo)

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) recently set up a new office to “synchronize” its various efforts in tapping into the commercial space sector, better focus its requirements for commercial needs, and further leverage what that market has to offer, the command’s top official said this week. The Commercial Integration Office was stood up on March 28 within USSPACECOM’s headquarters in Colorado Springs and coordinates the satellite communications efforts the command has at Vandenberg, AFB in California with space domain…

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