US Space Force joins intelligence community as 18th member 01/08/2021 2 Minutes Read The US Space Force will become a full member of the national intelligence community from January 8. “Today we welcome Space Force to the Intelligence Community and look forward to the power and ingenuity of a space security team unrivaled by any nation,” John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence, said in a statement. The Space Force becomes the 18th member of the US intelligence community, which is led by Ratcliffe’s office and includes the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency besides multiple agencies in the Defense, Treasury, Homeland Security and Energy departments. It is the first new organization to join the intelligence community since 2006, when the Drug Enforcement Administration, part of the Department of Justice, was initiated into the community.