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As US Space Force Turns 1, Its Trajectory Is on Target Commentary By The U.S. Space Force will celebrate its first birthday on Dec. 20. Through a year of news cycles dominated by coronavirus-driven lockdowns and the presidential election, you might have lost track of just how much progress this youngster has made, but its accomplishments are worth more than a passing glance. From his first moments in charge of the force, Air Force Gen. John Raymond began establishing the culture of the Space Fo...

Space Systems Command finalized, coming in early 2021 December 16, 2020 A still from a U.S. Space Force recruiting ad showing a service member in what appears to be an astronaut helmet. (Space Force) WASHINGTON — Plans for the U.S. Space Force’s new Space Systems Command are all but set, with the new acquisitions organization expected in early 2021, said Chief of Space Operations Gen. John “Jay” Raymond. “We’ve finalized the planning of that,” Raymond said during a Dec. 15 ...

Military bases: Kirtland Air Force Base Military population: 3,300 troops, 5,300 civilian employees and contractors Percent of adult population with a bachelor’s degree: 34% Pluses: Albuquerque has military space missions at Kirtland, including the rapid fielding office for satellites and part of the military’s space research arm. Albuquerque also has an outsized population of scientists thanks to the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories, which focus on nuclear energy and a...

Space command belongs in Colorado Print this article The U.S. Space Force is the nation’s newest branch of the armed services. President Trump created it, but there is much still to decide about how it will work. And a big decision, about where it will be based, is imminent. The U.S. Air Force, which supervises the Space Force, will announce its choice for the permanent Space Command headquarters in early 2021. The Command will be responsible for leading, supervising, and sustaining operati...

Throughout my career I often found myself “captured” in a 15-minute meeting that went on for an hour. The problem wasn’t that the content of the meeting wasn’t important, rather that all that needed to be said and heard was done in the first quarter hour. The extension of the discussion was generally summed up by the expression, “everything that needed to be said was said in the first 15 minutes….it just hadn’t been said by everyone in attendance”. My personal rule was to pass o...

Space Force belongs in Colorado Tom Rogan The U.S. Space Force is the nation’s newest branch of the armed services. President Trump created it, but there is much still to decide about how it will work. And a big decision, about where it will be based, is imminent. The U.S. Air Force, which supervises the Space Force, will announce its choice for the permanent Space Command headquarters in early 2021, and the decision is one it must get right. It is clear that if the United St...