TechnoSports by Nivedita Bangari November 24, 2021
SpaceX and Starlink both excluded from the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Space Systems Critical Infrastructure Working Group list
In a shocking new incident, it revealed that Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, and its internet service provider subsidiary SpaceX LLC, also known as Starlink, are not represented on the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Space Systems Critical Infrastructure Working Group. Federal agencies, companies, trade groups, and research institutions make up the SSC. Its goal is to assist the Department of Homeland Security on how to design risk-mitigation strategies for services that are important to the country’s national security.
The DHS formed the working group in May of this year to develop measures to evaluate and reduce the risk to vital American infrastructure assets that rely on space technologies. Several services, such as broadband internet and satellite imaging, have become critical for the business, government, and common customers as the space sector have grown.
The list of firms that are part of this working group, which is run by the Department of Homeland Security’s Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC), has just recently been made public. Bob Kolasky, the director of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) National Risk Management Center, shared it with Via Satellite (NRMC).
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