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>The Space Force is meeting on Friday with industry, to discuss how the Defense Department might build a Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve — a space parallel to the existing air and maritime civil reserve fleets that can be called up by the government in times of crisis or conflict to support military missions.
>Those fleets work essentially by the US government giving participating firms preferential treatment in exchange for them keeping some of their airplanes and ships at the ready to be rapidly called into action. Further, the US government guarantees participants some level of compensation should they be attacked.
>one of the key issues facing government and industry as commercial space companies increasingly are providing national security services is how to ensure that those firms are able “to operate in crisis and conflict.”
>“Just as we saw the value of commercial space systems in the Ukraine crisis, we’ve also seen the potential vulnerability and [the possibility for] commercial capabilities to be attacked as well. And so we’ve got to consider commercial capabilities and how they operate not just now, but also in the time of crisis. And certainly, we must consider how they must operate in a time of conflict as well,”
https://breakingdefense.com/2023/02/space-force-seeks-ideas-for-potential-commercial-space-reserve-fleet/