working to craft a framework for the program by this summer.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cWe have got to get these capabilities integrated in peacetime so that the warfighter has a chance to use it, so that we can integrate them into exercises and wargames to really make it part of the architecture,\u201d Knisely said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the same wide-ranging interview, Kniseley discussed his plans to expand the Space Domain Awareness marketplace \u2014 which allows companies to compete for space data contracts \u2014 to other mission areas and laid out his priorities for the new office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When was the Commercial Space Office created and where will it be headquartered?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was officially stood up [in April], and I\u2019ve already started aligning the processes and the offices. The actual headquarters for the Commercial Space Office will be in Chantilly, Va.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In fact, in June, we\u2019re opening up our Commercial Collaboration Center in Chantilly, and it\u2019s this perfect sweet spot to have it because it\u2019s right next to the National Reconnaissance Office. It\u2019s right near the Space Development Agency, you have NASA nearby along with other mission partners. But also it\u2019s in a good sweet spot of industry as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just having it out there is going to be a benefit to all of us because at the end of the day, I look at this commercial space office as a collaboration amongst everybody. And we were already building those relationships with NRO as well as the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency \u2014 understanding what contracts they had available so that we\u2019re not recreating contracts, but we could tap into those other areas with the appropriate funding and the requirement from the warfighter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What are your initial priorities in the Commercial Space Office?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of them are a little early on, but from a strategic standpoint, transitioning the Commercial Satellite Communications Office away from the Defense Information Systems Agency. Right now, organizationally, it is under the Space Force, but we are still utilizing DISA for contracting. To make this office work, we\u2019re standing up a working capital fund, which we are anticipating by the end of September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s going to allow us to really get after those other mission areas going forward. What we\u2019re doing with DISA is anything that is ongoing or if they were already in source selection, we\u2019re letting those go through. But soon new procurements, those will be actually coming through the Commercial Space Office contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When it comes down to the commercial space office, the biggest thing I want to do is make deliberate investment in commercial that\u2019s just really going to get after what the warfighter needs. Because the feedback I\u2019ve gotten from the commercial entities is they want to get involved. They want to be good partners. It\u2019s really all about a partnership. And the way to do that is to really show that you\u2019re deliberate in building that. The best way to do it is through investments. So, aligning contracts and aligning the right funding to do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How will your efforts be funded? Will that come from the program offices you\u2019re working with?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n
I look at my office to do a lot of the execution. I will be looking at the program executive offices \u2014 and I think this is even coming down from Space Force leadership \u2014 to look at their mission areas to really understand . . . how mature is the market right now? And also figuring out what are those inherently government missions or capabilities that need to be built in house and what can commercial take on today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The way I look at it, especially with this conflict that\u2019s coming [with China], we have got to get these capabilities integrated during peacetime so that the warfighter has a chance to use it, so that we can integrate them into exercises and war games to really make it a part of the architecture. You don\u2019t want to try and do that while you\u2019re in conflict. This is the time to do it so that if a crisis, heaven forbid, ever kicks up, you know it\u2019s there and you know how to use it. And it becomes almost part of your lexicon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Pentagon\u2019s Defense Innovation Unit works closely with companies and program offices to help get commercial technology to the warfighter. How will your office collaborate with DIU?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n
We talk constantly on many different issues. I\u2019ve been working with them on their hybrid space architecture, and some of the companies that are a part of that capability. And really, I see so much utility in some of the capabilities that can help us get after so many things that we\u2019re trying to do. So I\u2019m working on one effort right now to get them hooked up to the Naval Research Lab testbed, so that we can really prove out that capability. And then I think a lot of these are going to migrate to a live demo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, you would be connecting DIU\u2019s hybrid space architecture with the NRL testbed?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m connecting certain pieces of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How is your office engaging with companies? And what feedback do you hear from them about impediments to working with DoD?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I grow out the Commercial Space Office, one thing that we\u2019ve done extremely well in my mind in the Space Force and definitely in Space Systems Command is to have industry engagements. We had 11 last year, which is huge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We started with space-to-space communications in February of \u201822, and we had one almost once a month. That\u2019s where we\u2019ve been having a lot of conversation about our mission areas and posing our problems to them and, through a reverse industry day model, getting their feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I plan to continue those. We mentioned the [artificial intelligence\/machine learning] day in May. We\u2019re going to do alternate positioning, navigation and timing in June. I think there\u2019s gonna be a weather one because I see that as a big area that, why wouldn\u2019t we go commercial?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where I see industry getting frustrated is that there\u2019s been talk, but they want to see action. They want to see deliberate integration and funding in commercial and getting those capabilities to the warfighter. So that is definitely what I\u2019m going to challenge my team on and that\u2019s where I see success \u2014 contracts and funding and capability delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where is some of this commercial integration happening already within the Space Force?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n
We talked about the success of the commercial SATCOM office. I mean, that\u2019s about $1 billion dollars per year that executes through that office. I would like to do more with the Space Domain Awareness (SDA) marketplace, which is going to come under my office. There\u2019s areas that I\u2019ve got in my head of making it more of an investment in commercial while still ingraining that character and the discipline that we want out of the companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The work that\u2019s being done with [U.S. Space Command\u2019s] Joint Commercial Integration Office (JCO), that is actual operators utilizing that commercial capability \u2014 that is huge right there. That commercial capability is being brought in to utilize by operators and our allies alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I want to create other marketplaces for other areas so that I can almost replicate that SDA model and get it out to the JCO and start doing that type of stuff. If the warfighter has a requirement, I can throw it into that marketplace and have the competition there and then quickly get that capability out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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