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Redstone Arsenal was announced as the "preferred location" for the headquarters of U.S. Space Command on Wednesday. Posted: Jan 14, 2021 8:45 PM Posted By: Will Robinson-Smith With Wednesdays announcement that U.S. Space Command is set to make its new home at Redstone Arsenal, it lead to a common couple of questions: what is U.S. Space Command and is it different from Space Force? The answer to the second question is yes, Space Command and Space Force are not interchangeable.  U.S. Army Gen....

President Donald Trump has awarded U.S. Space Command to Huntsville Ala., in a move that several Pentagon insiders and lawmakers say bypassed the military’s top pick of Colorado Springs, the

President Donald Trump has awarded U.S. Space Command to Huntsville, Ala., in a move Wednesday that several Pentagon insiders and lawmakers say bypassed the military’s top pick of Colorado Springs, the units current home, because of political considerations. It’s a decision that Colorado lawmakers say they will ask President-elect Joe Biden to overturn and has caused Colorado Springs Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Trump loyalist, to break with the administration. The move also will li...

FAIRFAX, Va., Jan 12, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Full Spectrum Operations, LLC, (FSO), an SBA-approved, Mentor-Protégé Joint Venture (JV) between American Communications Solutions LLC (ACS), and By Light Professional IT Services LLC (By Light), has been awarded a contract for Eastern Western Operational Communications Services (EWOCS), a single award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) with a base ordering period of five years, two one...

Patty Bonvallet, director of innovation for defense contractor Boecore, talks recently about the Battle Space Operational Readiness Game (BORG) at the company’s Colorado Springs offices. BORG was designed by Boecore to replace lengthy Microsoft PowerPoint slide decks as the primary method of training satellite operators and other personnel for the nation’s newest military branch. CHANCEY BUSH, THE GAZETTE Chancey Bush, The Gazette

MilitarySpot.com Follow MilitarySpot: Space Force’s STEM Outreach Provides Critical Link to Force’s Future Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. Raymond, right, and Air Force astronaut Col. Nick Hague speak with third grade students from Desoto Intermediate School in Adel, Iowa, during a virtual call at the Pentagon, Arlington, Va., Dec. 16, 2020. The call was part of “DeSTEMber” events, an initiative to engage children in science, technology, engineering and math. (U.S. Air Force phot...

Share This: Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper attends the National Defense Authorization Act signing by President Donald J. Trump at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Dec. 20, 2019. “Everybody’s watching — we can’t build a heavy bureaucratic structure even if we wanted to.” – Lt. Gen. David Thompson, Vice Commander of the Space Force “You can’t do that. If you let your friends blow up the Earth, I’ll never speak to you again.” – Space Invaders, 1990  Asking the media to think ab...

personnel in the Space Force will be called Guardians. DEC. 19, 2020 | BY JIM GARAMONE, DOD NEWS Vice President Mike Pence announced that personnel in the Space Force will be called Guardians. He spoke during a White House event marking the first anniversary of the U.S. Space Force, yesterday. “It is my honor, on behalf of the President of the United States, to announce that, henceforth, the men and women of the United States Space Force will be known as ‘Guardians,” Pence said during t...

US Space Force: Everything you need to know on its first anniversary The Trump administration is winding down, but the new military branch it created -- whose members will be called "guardians" -- looks like its here to stay. Listen - 10:12 In the first official launch for the US Space Force, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on March 26, carrying a military communications satellite. ...

Dec 18th, 2020 3 min read COMMENTARY BY Senior Research Fellow for Defense Policy John “JV” Venable, a 25-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force is a senior research fellow for defense policy at Heritage. U.S. Air Force Space Command Gen. John Raymond stands next to the flag of the newly established U.S. Space Command in the Rose Garden at the White House on Aug. 29, 2019. Chip Somodevilla / Staff / Getty Images Key Takeaways The U.S. Space Force ...