U.S. Space Command has established an internal planning team, dubbed Tasked Force Voyager, to spearhead logistics for the combatant command's relocation from Colorado to Alabama.
Redstone Arsenal
President Donald Trump announced Sept. 2 that U.S. Space Command will move its headquarters from Colorado to Alabama, the latest shift in a yearslong back-and-forth.
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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.
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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 ...
The Government Accountability Office identified “significant shortfalls” in the transparency and credibility of the Air Force process that led to the selection of Redstone Arsenal, Ala., as the preferred location for the headquarters of U.S. Space Command in 2020, but it did not identify any ...
The Space Development Agency has already awarded contracts for most of the satellites that will form the beginnings of its massive planned constellation in low-Earth orbit, and on May 26 the agency awarded a deal for the ground systems to go with it. General Dynamics ...
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 ...
The Government Accountability Office expects to report findings in the spring of 2022 in its investigation into the Defense Department’s choice of Alabama as the likely permanent home of U.S. Space Command. Members of Colorado's congressional delegation registered their latest complaint Sept. 30 in the ...
There was an internal DOD struggle over which space capabilities and assets will leave the Army and Navy and become part of Space Force.
