Last year’s release of both the Department of Defense (DoD) “Commercial Space Integration Strategy” and the United States Space Force (USSF) “Commercial Space Strategy,” marked, for the first time, the Pentagon’s commitment to purposeful integration of commercial space capabilities into hybrid space architectures for national security missions.

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