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It\u2019s not governments; it\u2019s the commercial sector. Space is becoming and will become a commercial domain almost entirely, and national security will be a very small part of that in terms of the number of satellites.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Faced with the inevitability of space as a primarily commercial domain, the onus is on the government to discover where for-profit enterprises can compliment government missions and where government should contract with industry to provide capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Reconnaissance Office took a stab at this question earlier this week when it announced that it was taking steps toward purchasing more commercial imagery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/c2-comms\/satellites\/2019\/06\/04\/how-the-nro-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-commercial-imagery\/\" target=\"_blank\">through three study contracts with commercial companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe demand signal is growing. That\u2019s one of the reasons why we\u2019re going to be stepping up our procurement of commercial imagery,\u201d said Troy Meink, director of the NRO\u2019s Geospatial Intelligence Directorate at the GEOINT 2019 conference in San Antonio June 3. \u201cWe really needed to look at increasing the number of vendors and getting access to more vendors to meet those capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government can also lean on the commercial sector to enhance its own assets in space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe can actually use our relationships with the commercial technologies to help inform our requirements that go into systems that we may uniquely require on the defense or the intelligence side,\u201d explained Col. 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