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Published Dec. 20, 2019. By Department of Defense. Department of Defense. 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.
Jul 23, 2020 · In short, an arms race for space has begun. This is the story of America’s effort to keep ahead. Spencer Lowell for TIME. The mission of protecting America’s vulnerable orbital networks falls...
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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.
Aug 19, 2020 · Space Force became a military service Dec. 20. "We have really been launching off like a rocket getting this service in place," Crider said. The Space Force's motto is "Semper Supra," which means ...
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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...
Space Capstone Publication, Spacepower (SCP) Headquarters United States Space Force June 2020 Dedicated to past, present, and future spacepower pioneers. T he inaugural Space Capstone Publication, Spacepower (SCP) is capstone doctrine for the United States Space Force and represents our Service’s first articulation of an independent theory of
Dec 20, 2020 · Space Force aims to have about 2,500 members in space operations career fields by the end of calendar year 2020. It's on track to have around 6,500 members by the end of the 2021 fiscal...
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. The establishment of the USSF resulted from widespread recognition that Space was a national security imperative.
