U.S. Space Command will reach full operational capability before the end of 2023, commander Gen. James H. Dickinson told members of Congress on Sept. 28, even as the fiery debate over the combatant command’s long-term home shows no signs of letting up.
Peterson Space Force Base
The Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2023 will be formally recognized at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference from Sept. 11-13 in National Harbor, Md. Air & Space Forces Magazine is highlighting one each weekday from now until the conference begins. Today, we ...
WORLD-Space: Biden says Space Command to stay in Colorado; Space Force gets Targeting Squadron; Space Force Legacy Guardian Recognition Act.
The Space Force's first-ever targeting unit, 75th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Squadron, scopes out adversary space systems and presents options for neutralizing them.
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To celebrate the Air Force’s 75th anniversary, the Air & Space Forces Association set out to connect 11 “living legends” from Air Force history with Airmen and Guardians in the force today.
Garrisons are out—Space Base Deltas are in. The Space Force has switched up how it refers to the organizations responsible for mission support functions, saying the new designations better reflect their function and place within the service’s structure. The Peterson-Schriever and Buckley Garrisons became Space ...
An environmental assessment by the Department of the Air Force found that adverse effects of building U.S. Space Command’s headquarters at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., would be “short-term and not significant.” A favorable environmental assessment should have been all Redstone Arsenal needed to lock in the ...
A single “hooah” filled the atrium of the Electromagnetic Warfare Facility at Peterson Space Force Base, Colo., on June 15, where a former Army officer received his first salute as commander of the USSF's 4th Electromagnetic Warfare Squadron. Lt. Col. Nicholas R. Shaw became the ...
The Air Force didn’t break the law, nor did it violate Defense Department policy, when it chose Redstone Arsenal, Ala., as the permanent home of U.S. Space Command in 2020, according to DOD’s internal watchdog. However, the Office of the Inspector General recommended that Defense ...
Six bases are being considered as the eventual home for the Space Force’s Space Training and Readiness Command, the Department of the Air Force announced April 4. Site surveys of the bases will begin in late April or early May 2022, DAF said in a ...