SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has joined forces with the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to share oversight of a Defense Department program to lease a commercial communications satellite to serve U.S. forces in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia.

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Debra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco. Debra earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient...