VADM Frank Whitworth, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and U.S. Space Force Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of Space Operations, signed a memorandum of agreement May 21, outlining a governance framework for partnership and cooperation between the two organizations regarding the Space Force’s Tactical Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Tracking (TacSRT) program.
The agreement describes the roles and responsibilities in acquiring and providing commercial imagery-related remote sensing data and associated products, enhancing support to the combatant commands while minimizing redundancy and duplication of effort.
“What [the agreement] really reflects is the quality of collaboration and every echelon that was necessary to work through these procedures,” Saltzman said. “I’m excited about this because of what it represents, and that’s really industrial strength collaboration.”
Whitworth echoed Saltzman’s remarks, calling the agreement a “new standard for collaboration.”
TacSRT is a U.S. Space Force initiative aimed at rapidly delivering unclassified, commercial sensing and analytics to combatant commands via Space Force service components. It supports rapid response to specific combatant command requests, delivering operational planning products for situational context.
Source: NGA
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