Vivienne Machi is the military space editor for Aviation Week. She has written about U.S. and international military and space tech for nearly a decade from Los Angeles, Washington and Stuttgart, Germany. Her byline has appeared in outlets including Defense News, Via Satellite, Foreign Policy, Defense Daily, National Defense Magazine and Business Insider.
The U.S. Space Force’s innovation arm has awarded millions of dollars to 11 startups looking to take new technologies from the prototyping phase to demos.
The U.S. office is increasingly incorporating commercial remote-sensing vendors into its space-based architectures as partners instead of as an afterthought.
