Digantara, an Indian startup working on space situational awareness, has raised $10 million in a round led by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia).
DoD is working with Commerce to provide expertise on how to crunch space observational data, said Travis Langster, DoD principal director for space policy.
Industry representatives meeting with Commerce Deputy Secretary Don Graves on Tuesday "stressed the need for [Commerce] to work quickly to field the new capabilities ideally by buying and redistributing existing commercial products in order to maintain leadership in the face of competing SSA offerings from the EU and China," a Commerce official told Breaking Defense today.