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Commercial Space Firms To Support Military Space Monitoring
The Space Force has awarded its first six ‘operational’ contracts under the Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR) initiative to six space monitoring firms, including Australian firm EOS Space Systems, Canada’s NorthStar Earth and Space, and US-based Anduril. The contracts, worth a total of $1.37 million, are designed to test military demand for commercial space services while the Space Systems Command’s Commercial Space Office continues to address thorny legal issues. The CASR initiative aims to leverage commercial space firms to support military logistics operations in wartime, similar to the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) program. This development was first reported by Breaking Defense.