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 Space Force currently only supports NASA human spaceflight operations.
The U.S. Space Force is not planning to send humans into space for national security purposes in the near future.
When Congress established the Space Force on 2019-12-20, it renamed the Colorado Springs-based Air Force Space Command the U.S. Space Force.
The Space Force completed development of a new acquisition process purpose-built for space under the leadership of Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond.
Information submitted by vendors to the 2020-05-20 request for information will be used by the U.S. Space Force’s launch enterprise to prepare an official solicitation.
The Space Force recommends reducing traditional milestone review reporting requirements because milestone reviews can slow space programs and often provide little design change at later decision points like Milestone C.
The Space Force recommends creating a separate head of contracting with authority to develop supplemental space acquisition guidance and deviate from the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) as necessary.
The U.S. Space Force delivered a report to congressional committees on 2020-05-20 requesting changes to rules for buying new weapon systems.
The planned Space Force acquisitions command is expected to serve as an umbrella organization for the Space and Missile Systems Center, the Space Rapid Capabilities Office, and the Space Development Agency.
Gen. John Raymond, Chief of Space Operations of the U.S. Space Force, stated that Department of Defense officials will brief the House Armed Services Committee on 2020-05-21 on the Ligado issue.
When the U.S. Space Force was established in December 2019, the Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles was realigned under the Space Force.
Congress directed the Department of Defense to produce a plan to transfer the Space Development Agency to the Space Force by October 2022.
When the U.S. Space Force was established in December 2019, the Space Rapid Capabilities Office at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico was realigned under the Space Force.
The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act directed that the Space Development Agency should move to the Space Force no later than 2022-10-01.
Derek Tournear seeks to complete the Space Development Agency’s first satellite constellation before transitioning the agency to the Space Force in 2022.
Barbara Barrett opposes a Defense Department proposal that would delay transferring the Space Development Agency to the Space Force until October 2022.
The U.S. Space Force was established in December 2019.
The U.S. Space Force’s launch enterprise awarded ManTech a $20,900,000 six-month contract extension to provide systems engineering and integration services until September 2020.
Derek Tournear expects the Space Development Agency to transition to the Space Force by October 2022 as directed by Congress.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center plans to start launching Next-Gen OPIR geosynchronous satellites in 2025 and polar satellites in 2027.