Michael Kaplan and Air Force Capt. Weldon Hobbs accept an Elite 6 Award for Cyber from C4ISR & Networks editor Barry Rosenberg on behalf of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at the 14th Annual C4ISR & Networks Conference at the Renaissance and Residence Inn in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday, April 7, 2015. (Mike Morones/Staff)Col. Michael Thurston accepts an Elite 6 Award for Mobility from C4ISR & Networks editor Barry Rosenberg on behalf of the Army's PM Mission Command at the 14th Annual C4ISR & Networks Conference at the Renaissance and Residence Inn in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday, April 7, 2015. (Mike Morones/Staff)Lt. Gen. Mark Bowman, Jeff Springer and Jon MacCartney accept an Elite 6 Award for C2/Comms from C4ISR & Networks editor Barry Rosenberg on behalf of the Joint Staff J6 at the 14th Annual C4ISR & Networks Conference at the Renaissance and Residence Inn in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday, April 7, 2015. (Mike Morones/Staff)Michael Kaplan and Air Force Capt. Weldon Hobbs accept an Elite 6 Award for Cyber from C4ISR & Networks editor Barry Rosenberg on behalf of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at the 14th Annual C4ISR & Networks Conference at the Renaissance and Residence Inn in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday, April 7, 2015. (Mike Morones/Staff)Roger Dickerson accepts an Elite 6 Award for UAS/ISR/Sensors from C4ISR & Networks editor Barry Rosenberg on behalf of the Georgia Tech Research Institute at the 14th Annual C4ISR & Networks Conference at the Renaissance and Residence Inn in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday, April 7, 2015. (Mike Morones/Staff)Brig. Gen. Kevin Nally, Col. Dave McMorries and Karl Hartenstine accept an Elite 6 Award for IT/Networks from C4ISR & Networks editor Barry Rosenberg on behalf of the Headquarters Marine Corps, C4, at the 14th Annual C4ISR & Networks Conference at the Renaissance and Residence Inn in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday, April 7, 2015. (Mike Morones/Staff)Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Kanaan accepts an Elite 6 Award for GEOINT from C4ISR & Networks editor Barry Rosenberg on behalf of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at the 14th Annual C4ISR & Networks Conference at the Renaissance and Residence Inn in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday, April 7, 2015. (Mike Morones/Staff)
The memo directs the military services to create active duty formations by September, built for the sole purpose of scaling the use of drones across DOD.
The report recommends SDA make process and culture changes as it looks to scale from handfuls of demo satellites to hundreds of operational spacecraft.