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By Kristin Fisher, CNN The US Air Force's decision-making process to move Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs to Alabama had "significant

Defense Department officials told former President Donald Trump’s administration that setting up Space Command in Colorado would allow for a quicker path to full operations, but they came away with a decision to move the headquarters to Alabama.

A Trump administration decision to uproot U.S. Space Command and move it to Alabama lacked credibility and transparency, the Government Accountability Office concluded in a report released Thursday.

DENVER (AP) -- The U.S. Air Force abruptly changed its procedures to select a permanent headquarters for the U.S. Space Command during the election year

The concept of jointness has gone too far and has not delivered the promised results.

The annual "State of Military Communications Technology" poll finds that only about a third of repondents believed that the Pentagon was moving quickly enough to adopt commercial technology and streamlined acquisition rules to be able to make necessary upgrades quickly.

Retired Army Col. Cecil Hengeveld was the guest speaker at the Flagler County Memorial Day Ceremony; Mayor David Alfin spoke at the city's ceremony at Heroes Memorial Park.

Leaders of Colorado's higher education system wrote a letter explaining how U.S. Space Command benefits from the state's universities.

"It's a big acknowledgement that [Low Earth Orbit] is expanding rapidly. It's of national importance. It's of commercial importance. And there's a need to have more eyes on the sky," CEO Dan Ceperley told Breaking Defense in an interview.

Funding for roads, more support for police and fire, and fighting to ensure U.S. Space Command remains in Colorado Springs are among Mayor John Suthers priorities for his last year