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Theresa Hitchens on January 12, 2021 at 4:08 PM
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WASHINGTON: A new Commercial Space Council set up by the Intelligence Community is designed to rethink how data and analysis is gleaned from commercial space systems to help speed intel products to users.
There are five “standing members” of the council the NRO, the NSA, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the DIA and the CIA plus “plenty of observers,” David Gauthier, NGA head of commercial space ops, told the SmallSat Alliance today. Gauthier has been named by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe as chair of the new council.