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PENTAGON, Washington D.C. --. Today the President signed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act and with it, directed the establishment of the U.S. Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces.
Feb 14, 2023 · On Dec. 20, 2019, Air Force Space Command was renamed United States Space Force and was established as an independent service when President Donald Trump signed the 2020 National Defense...
Jul 23, 2020 · The mission of protecting America’s vulnerable orbital networks falls to U.S. Space Command and Space Force, which since December has the same status as the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.
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- Another reason for Space Force’s creation is that national satellites are currently controlled by multiple services,agencies,which can lead to excessive secrecy,the lack of information sharing known in the intelligence world as hypercompartmentalization. During the Obama Administration,it once took officials four months to assemble a briefing on U.S. space capabilities for then Vice President Joe Biden because information was scattered among so many top-secret classifications,few officials had access to all of them,recalls Robert Cardillo,former director of the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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Jun 1, 2020 · Now it is time to set the Space Force up for success by taking the next steps to provide the human, budget, and organizational resources the new Space Force needs to build America’s critical space capability and capacity.
Aug 19, 2020 · The Space Force can learn what adversaries are doing before any other nation knows because of the Defense Department's exquisite intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, a...
The U.S. Space Force was established Dec. 20, 2019 when the National Defense Authorization Act was signed into law (with bi-partisan support), creating the first new branch of the armed services in 73 years.
Dec 20, 2020 · The US Space Force is now a year old, and it continues to consolidate the Defense Department's orbit-focused operations, everything from running satellite launches to managing the GPS ...
