Officials with the Air Force and the St. Louis County Port Authority have reached agreement on the transfer of 39 acres of land to the port authority. The National Imagery Mapping Agency once used the property that the federal government declared excess in 2005. The White House views the initiative as a “profile in citizen stewardship,” say USAF officials.
After years of describing to lawmakers and Pentagon leaders the nature of that threat and the key role spacepower plays in deterring conflict in the domain and enabling the rest of the joint force, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told reporters during AFA’s Warfare Symposium here that the message appears to…