These are satellites that will monitor geostationary orbit, not monitor from geostat. They're not a secret, and aren't really "spying", given that their existence isn't a secret.

What a moronic headline.

They can give me 10 billion dollars to make an AItellite. I won't have to actually make anything useful, just throw some garbage in the air once in a while and claim victory constantly.

The Pentagon is trying to fast-track the deployment of spacecraft for surveillance of geosynchronous Earth orbit, or GEO, a strategically important region roughly 22,000 miles above Earth where many U.S. communications, missile warning and intelligence satellites operate.

So...they want a solution to monitor what is currently moving around in GEO. Doesn't seem particularly sinister or even like "spying"