Space radar firm cuts out the U.S. Government, sells direct to allies. 430 WORDS · ~2 MIN UNVERIFIED // NOT WITHDRAWN PRE-DECISIONAL RESTON, VA (UAPNOW) - From a GS-15-equivalent cube on the analytic side, door open, the interesting document this week is a dissent paragraph a participating agency filed against a finished product on commercial space situational awareness, and the interesting thing about the dissent is that the customer set it was written for, the National Security Council, the Hill, the relevant Department, has been the actor moving the market since the tasking memo was approved. LeoLabs told the AMOS conference this month that it will deploy additional Scout-S mobile phased array radars to fill coverage gaps in its own twelve-site network, and will also sell the identical unit to allied governments so those governments can fill their coverage gaps. Both bills clear. Both invoices go to parties the United States government, until recently, expected to route through itself. The org chart has not caught up to the invoice. The tasking that produced the finished product treats commercial SSA as a service the government procures on behalf of a coalition. The market treats the coalition as twelve separate procurement lines, each with a wire transfer, and the United States as one of the twelve, distinguished mainly by how long the wire takes to clear. The dissenting paragraph, as the finished product carries it, notes that the assessment does not address the case in which the vendor's own network densification and the allied sales are the same production run, priced separately. The main text does not address it because the tasking did not ask. The tasking did not ask because, when the tasking was approved, the vendor was still describing itself as a contractor. It is now describing itself, on the show floor, as a peer. The reading offered here would be undercut by classified tasking that has since caught up, which from outside the building I cannot see. The consequence is procurement-shaped and unglamorous. The 2021 ODNI Preliminary Assessment on UAP identified sensor coverage as the limiting reagent on the anomaly question, and the 2023 AARO Historical Record Report Volume I treated commercial data as a coming supplement to national technical means. Neither document contemplated the supplement selling itself to Canberra, Tokyo, and Berlin at list price while Washington waits on a contract vehicle. Defense News covered the direct-to-allies pivot on September 15. The finished product this office reads was tasked before that pivot and delivered after it, which is the ordinary condition of finished products and the reason the dissent paragraph is doing more work than the assessment. The United States government is now one subscriber among several to a picture it used to commission. - end of draft assessment - Signals reviewed. Cited in the open record. Public records named in this product, checked against the open-record catalog. * RepositoryODNI · verified 15 May 2026 * RepositoryAARO · verified 15 May 2026 Filed 18·SEP 19:15Z.

LeoLabs teams with SciTec to support U.S. Space Force ground-based radar digitization program. Sep 09, 2026, 08:45 ET MENLO PARK, Calif., Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - LeoLabs, Inc. (LeoLabs), the leading provider of persistent Orbital Intelligence, today announced it is teaming with SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace company, to support its recently awarded $93,704,410 firm-fixed price other transaction agreement for ground-based radar digitization. This contract provides for modernization efforts to create a common architecture and design for the upgrade of ground-based radars. Space Systems Command, Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the contracting activity. "Today's threat environment demands more resilient sensing capabilities that can be scaled and fielded at the pace of the mission," said Tony Frazier, Chief Executive Officer of LeoLabs. "We're proud to bring our proven radar technology and operational expertise to this modernization initiative, helping deliver the speed, scale, and resilience needed to meet the U.S. Space Force's evolving mission requirements." About LeoLabs LeoLabs enables military space commands, civil government agencies, and commercial operators to confidently detect, track, characterize, and respond to threats in space. Our proliferated, multi-mission radar network, real-time orbital data catalog, and AI-powered analytics support secure, safe, and dynamic space operations. SOURCE LeoLabs, Inc.