It is intended to help procure urgent space-related projects, similar to Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office; Space RCO can issue contracts of up to $1 billion without outside authorization.

Kelly Hammett, agency directory, stated in February 2023 that it decided to disclose developing three of the payloads on USSF-67 as part of a gradual reduction in secrecy, to better work with the space industry and rest of government.

In order to accomplish this, the office is allowed four significant departures in methodology from traditional Department of Defense procedure to accelerate the process of space acquisitions: It has a short and narrow chain of command; early and consistent end user involvement; small, cohesively integrated and empowered program teams; and a cadre of preassembled support across human resources, contracting, finance, IT, and security.

[5] The Space RCO conducts outreach to small and midsize businesses to broaden its visibility and enhance its network of potential partners to harness commercial solutions to accelerate research and development periods.

[6] It also allows initial rounds of funding to be used to generate credibility for startups to find other commercial backing to grow and build their ideas, and gives the government a route to procure resulting technology in the future.