Space Force

Shanahan: DOD Must Ensure Space Force Costs Stay in Check 0
- Congress/DoD, DC360
- March 20, 2019
A Space Force could need 15,000 to 20,000 personnel, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Wednesday at a CSIS event. The administration’s budget requested funding for 15,000. Shanahan said the costs could go up. “In the department, we’re really going to do a bottoms-up approach to cost,” Shanahan said, according to Military.com. “Cost grows if
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Shelby, Durbin Seem Skeptical of Space Force 0
- Congress/DoD, DC360
- March 14, 2019
Two key senators didn’t seem all the way on board with the creation of a Space Force during a subcommittee hearing Wednesday with Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the top Democrat on the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, said the new branch could become
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In Our Communities 0
- Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Congress/DoD, DC360, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- March 14, 2019
New Mexico is suing the Air Force over contaminated water on and near Cannon and Holloman Air Force bases, the Air Force Times reported. “Today we begin holding them accountable,” New Mexico Environment Secretary James Kenney said when he announced the suit last week…. Texas is making a play to get the Space Force headquarters
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Trump Signs off on Scaled-Back Space Force 0
- Congress/DoD, DC360
- February 19, 2019
President Donald Trump signed a directive Tuesday to create Space Force. The administration’s budget, expected to be delivered to Congress mid-March, will include language setting up Space Force and requesting seed money of less than $100,000, USA Today reported. Space Force would be housed within the Air Force – similar to how the Marine Corps
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SECAF to Stand Up Space Force 0
- Congress/DoD, DC360
- February 13, 2019
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan is expected to formally hand over Space Force controls to Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson in coming weeks, according to Defense One, which reported on a draft memo directing Wilson to establish a team to coordinate Space Force. Wilson, some other Pentagon leaders and many on Capitol Hill had been
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Slimmed-Down Space Force Gaining Steam 0
- Congress/DoD, DC360
- February 4, 2019
Skeptics of the Space Force are warming to a new proposal to house the program within the Air Force until it is ready to become its own department, Politico reported. “I actually think this is a promising proposal,” House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) told Politico. “Not sure we’re going to do it, but
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