THERESA HITCHENS writes: Defense Department space leaders are pressing their case for the Space Force to take on responsibility for buying commercial satellite imagery and analytical products to support day-to-day military operations, despite cautionary rumblings from Capitol Hill about overlap with the Intelligence Community. Over the past two decades, “there’s been a lot of need to have imagery and information products on the fly. … We don’t need a lot of that information for intelligence,” Steve “Bucky” Butow, Space Portfolio director at the Defense Innovation Unit, told the Navy League’s annual Sea Air Space 2021 show yesterday.
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