{"id":59726,"date":"2020-05-14T00:14:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T16:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/space-force-official-says-dod-could-assist-oneweb\/"},"modified":"2020-05-14T00:14:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T16:14:06","slug":"space-force-official-says-dod-could-assist-oneweb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/space-force-official-says-dod-could-assist-oneweb\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Force Official Says DoD Could Assist OneWeb"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>U.S. Department of Defe<\/strong>nse (DoD) is weighing options to assist vulnerable space startups that have been hit hard by the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Space Force\u2019s number-two officer said May 12.<\/p>\n<p>The nascent military branch remains \u201cgreatly concerned\u201d about the economic impact of the coronavirus on commercial and defense-related companies, including firms that have recently filed for bankruptcy such as&nbsp;<strong>OneWeb<\/strong>, said Vice Commander Lt. Gen. David \u201cDT\u201d Thompson during a Tuesday webinar hosted by the Mitchell Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Space Force leaders have coordinated with their colleagues on the Space Acquisition Council to develop a series of proposed investments to move aggressively to protect impacted companies, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will say with respect to OneWeb specifically and others, we continue to work,\u201d Thompson said \u201cWe work with the White House and we\u2019ll be working with Congress, not just focused on OneWeb but all of the commercial space companies that face bankruptcy and face those concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson did not provide additional details on what those investments may look like. But he emphasized that they would be needed to ensure that technologies being developed by OneWeb and other space companies remain available for U.S. national security, and that \u201cpotential adversaries don\u2019t have the opportunity to acquire those capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OneWeb filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on March 27, and a sale for the company\u2019s assets is ongoing. Amazon, SpaceX, Eutelsat and the U.K. government are reported to be interested.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was first published by Via Satellite\u2019s sister publication Defense Daily.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is weighing options to assist vulnerable space startups that have been hit hard by the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Space Force\u2019s number-two officer said May 12. The nascent military branch remains \u201cgreatly concerned\u201d about the economic impact of the coronavirus on commercial and defense-related companies, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}