Army general poised to become No. 2 at U.S. Space Command - SpaceNews.com

The commander of the Army Space and Missile Defense Command and Army Force Strategic Command Lt. Gen. James Dickinson is expected to be nominated to be the deputy commander of U.S. Space Command.

The nomination has been signed off by the White House and is being submitted to the Senate Armed Services Committee, a DoD source said. Dickinson’s promotion was first reported by DefenseNews.

In a keynote speech on Tuesday at the Space & Missile Defense Symposium, Dickinson did not provide any hints that he had been tapped to become Gen. John Raymond’s deputy. He did make a detailed pitch for the Army’s space forces and pointed out that the service is the military’s largest consumer of space-based technologies.