Pentagon turns to ‘government-owned, commercially-operated’ satellites amid conflict risks

Published on October 30, 2025
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The move toward so-called GOCO (government-owned, commercially-operated) arrangements has been shaped by developments such as Russia declaring that Western commercial satellites could be legitimate military targets.

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