Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. The Pentagon is putting $13 billion behind its talk of embracing commercial space, committing serious money to low-Earth orbit satellite services. This marks a dramatic increase in spending on commercial satellite services, with the so-called PLEO (Proliferated Low Earth Orbit) contract jumping from $900 million to $13 billion over a decade. Unlike the military’s typical procurement approach, the PLEO contract gives vendors greater flexibility to tailor services to customer needs rather than…
