Get Ready For The Space Force
Pentagon not waiting for Congress to create space force: report, The Hill
“The Department of Defense is reportedly planning to create a new Space Operations Force in upcoming months at the direction of President Trump, despite lacking congressional approval for the new military service branch. Defense One reports that the Pentagon has laid out its plan to create the new Space Force in a 14-page report that will be given to lawmakers later this week. Defense One reports that it has reviewed a draft copy of the report dated July 30. The plan as it is currently laid out in the draft includes creating a Space Force with four parts, three of which will be established over the next few months. A combatant command for space, a joint agency that will purchase military satellites and a new warfighting community are among the three parts to be established in the near future.”
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#BREAKING – The #SpaceForce report that was supposed to be sent to Congress tomorrow will be late. Pentagon spox says report is in its "final stages" but not completed. Sources say drafts have been sent to WH, so perhaps administration didn't like what it read in drafts?
— Carla Babb (@CarlaBabbVOA) July 31, 2018
And so here is where all the money for the supposed Space Frontier Act (S. 3277) will go to.
So you don’t think that space needs a traffic control system? Even with the thousands of new satellites proposed for it?
It certainly needs a trash pickup service.
LOL
Sure, but a “Space Force” is not the way to go. It will just be yet another drain taking away from the concentration needed for a real goal. Mankind has not been out of low earth orbit since 1973 because of many initiatives such as this that just don’t last.
It’s not draining money as the USAF Space Command is already being funded out of the DOD spending bill, while NASA is funded along with NSF and NIH in a different spending bill overseen by a different Congressional committee. The US Space Force will continue to be part of the DOD bill and so it’s not anymore in competition with NASA than the Dept. of Agriculture is…
We have one. It’s called the JSPOC. They do a pretty good job too.
Keith,
You should have titled this “Get Ready for the Space Farce.” I have a feeling it will be sponsored by the same folks working hard on SLS and the Webb Space Telescope.
The Pentagon is doing what Congress asked them to do in April long before President Trump’s announcement and provide with a report on the feasibility of creating it and the steps required. And it’s normal for an Administration to review to see if it fits with the policy it wants to follow. So nothing surprising here.
That’s quite possible. The Pentagon was less than enthusiastic about the April request from Congress. If they started working on it then, and had large parts complete before the President’s announcement in June, then I can see the Administration wanting to review it. And ask for some changes.
I’d rather have an infrastructure force than a Space Force.
In the old west the Army created a lot of the infrastructure in terms of forts and the roads/telegraph lines connecting them. It also bought its horses, food and other supplies from pioneers on the frontier. The USSF may well create similar markets in space ?
Need a hand .. have you seen this?
https://spacenews.com/op-ed…
I wonder if he knows that the entire reason the U.S. pushed to include Article VI in the OST was to protect the 1st Amendment rights of commercial firms broadcasting from space? If not then he needs to review the Senate Hearings on the OST.
What exactly is a “warfighting community”?
An extremely vague term. The Pentagon has a certain way with words.
A “community” sounds warm and friendly, except for the warfighting part. Seriously, the idea of actual separate services is what is obsolete. Space Command is already free to detail personnel from any of the services, and combatent and support commands and intelligence services are free to integrate space assets into their theaters of operations. Isolating personnel to spend their entire career supporting only space activities would serve no purpose. Moreover, since the military is moving away from manned systems not only in space but even in the air, there is, with sincere apologies to a lot of great science fiction authors, no cadre of military personnel who will actually fight in space.