The U.S. Space Force (USSF) is the space service branch of the U.S. Department of Defense, established in December 2019. Its primary role is to organize, train, and equip space forces to protect U.S. and allied interests in space by ensuring space superiority. The USSF manages space launch operations, satellite operations, space environment surveillance, and satellite defense, and partners with organizations like NASA on space domain awareness and planetary defense. Key areas of focus include missile warning, satellite communications, and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services.
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The U.S. Space Force budget proposal for fiscal year 2027 calls for a 124% increase.
The Space Force expects to integrate the first wave of space-based interceptors into the Golden Dome architecture by late 2028.
Starfish Space received its first Space Force contract in 2024 under a Strategic Funding Increase contract to dock with a national security spacecraft in orbit.
The Space Force’s 2027 budget request contains no funding for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture Tranche 3 Transport Layer.
Major Andre Ball moved from an Education with Industry assignment at Lockheed Martin to help draft the U.S. Space Force’s Future Operating Environment 2040 strategy.
The U.S. Space Force uses Education with Industry as a talent-development program.
If approved, the combined Air Force and Space Force budget for the fiscal year beginning October 1 would increase by $92.5 billion from the current fiscal year.
The fiscal year 2027 Space Force budget would increase Guardian Force end strength by 2,800 personnel.
The personnel increase would add 9,900 positions to the Air Force and 2,800 positions to the Space Force.
The fiscal year 2027 Space Force budget includes an additional $500 million for cyber warfare operations to protect satellites.
The Space Force would receive an additional $2.9 billion for national security space launch funding, enabling 22 launches.
The Space Force budget request for fiscal year 2027 increases by 124% from the current fiscal year.
The fiscal year 2027 Space Force budget includes $6.8 billion for missile warning and tracking architecture, an increase of $2.9 billion.
GPS III Space Vehicle 10 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The fiscal year 2027 Space Force budget includes $6.7 billion for satellite communications, an increase of 60%.
The fiscal year 2027 Air Force budget includes $2 billion for exercises and training, including large-scale exercises involving both the Air Force and the Space Force.
The proposed budget allocates $267.7 billion for the Air Force and $71.1 billion for the Space Force.
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Space Force marked the fourth consecutive GPS satellite launch on an accelerated delivery schedule with the launch of GPS III Space Vehicle 10.
The fiscal year 2027 budget request includes $2.5 billion for personnel to increase Air Force and Space Force manpower by 12,700 positions.
Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said the U.S. Space Force must add thousands of Guardians and supporting infrastructure over the next five to 10 years.