It is unclear whether the US Intelligence Community has directly responded to NATO's call for information from allies on existing and emerging IMINT capabilities.
"Our goal is to ultimately develop a comprehensive set of needs and gap analysis with traceable documentation of the joint warfighter requirements for space," said Lt. Gen. Chance Saltzman, before investing in solutions.
Payam Banazadeh, CEO of Capella Space, told Breaking Defense that the Ukraine war has been a "critical place for the industry to show itself," but NRO says it isn't accelerating the SAR acquisition process.
Vice Adm. Robert Sharp, outgoing NGA director, said the fusion of Project Maven with his agency's current AI efforts will "give us our millions of eyes to see the unseen."
A study by the Space Warfighting Analysis Center that determined a multi-layered network of satellites in Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO), highly-elliptical polar orbit, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) is necessary to provide comprehensive ballistic and hypersonic missile warning and tracking.