Posted on Jun 16, 2023
Space Command builds out Colorado HQ as Congress members try to force Alabama move
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The head of U.S. Space Command is building out his military command headquarters in Colorado, even as members of Congress try to force the Defense Department to move the headquarters to Alabama as planned by holding funding hostage, two congressional officials and two defense officials say.
NBC News was first to report that the Biden administration is reconsidering an approved move of the headquarters to Alabama because the state has imposed a near total ban on abortion.
On June 7, Gen. James Dickinson, the commander of Space Command, initiated a review to determine whether the command is at Full Operational Capability, or FOC, the officials said, which means whether it has the resources and personnel to be totally capable of performing its mission in its current location. While under Initial Operating Capability, Space Command is hiring personnel for temporary positions at its current headquarters at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but under FOC it could make the positions permanent.
NBC News was first to report that the Biden administration is reconsidering an approved move of the headquarters to Alabama because the state has imposed a near total ban on abortion.
On June 7, Gen. James Dickinson, the commander of Space Command, initiated a review to determine whether the command is at Full Operational Capability, or FOC, the officials said, which means whether it has the resources and personnel to be totally capable of performing its mission in its current location. While under Initial Operating Capability, Space Command is hiring personnel for temporary positions at its current headquarters at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but under FOC it could make the positions permanent.
Space Command builds out Colorado HQ as Congress members try to force Alabama move
Posted from nbcnews.comPosted in these groups: Colorado Springs Peterson AFBU.S. House of Representatives Huntsville Budget
Posted 11 mo ago
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Posted 10 mo ago
This has been screwed up since 2019 when administration #45 decided to flaunt US law...
"The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which was signed into law in 2018, directed the re-establishment of U.S. Space Command as a sub-unified command under U.S. Strategic Command; however, in December 2018, the Trump administration directed that U.S. Space Command instead be a newly established, full unified combatant command."
I was at USSTRATCOM's JFCC-SPACE when this happened, working in the J35. The proponents always claimed that they would not require *ANY* more resources for admin - only expanded operations. A promise they have repeatedly broken in astronomical measures.
So sorry, too late. "We" decided in 2019 to put it in COS, we spent resources getting IOC at Schriever and Peterson. ZERO reason to move it now. Oh, except blatantly partisan politics and biased Alabama people.
"The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which was signed into law in 2018, directed the re-establishment of U.S. Space Command as a sub-unified command under U.S. Strategic Command; however, in December 2018, the Trump administration directed that U.S. Space Command instead be a newly established, full unified combatant command."
I was at USSTRATCOM's JFCC-SPACE when this happened, working in the J35. The proponents always claimed that they would not require *ANY* more resources for admin - only expanded operations. A promise they have repeatedly broken in astronomical measures.
So sorry, too late. "We" decided in 2019 to put it in COS, we spent resources getting IOC at Schriever and Peterson. ZERO reason to move it now. Oh, except blatantly partisan politics and biased Alabama people.
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