US Space Force Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve: Political will is clear, but so are indemnification challenges - Space Intel Report

US Space Force Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve: Political will is clear, but so are indemnification challenges - Space Intel Report

WASHINGTON— LA PLATA, Maryland — The US Space Force has begun letting three-month pilot contracts for its Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR) for real-world testing of how to bring commercial space capacity more fully into US military operations. But the first pilots focus on space domain awareness, a field that bears little relation to satellite telecommunications or Earth observation and is unlikely to address many of the challenges t…