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 was established on 2019-12-20 as a separate branch of the armed forces under the Department of the Air Force.
The proposed 2021 budget request for the United States Space Force is $15,400,000,000.
L3Harris was awarded a 10-year, $1,200,000,000 contract by the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center to maintain and modernize the military’s network of space surveillance sensors.
More than 60 members of the U.S. Air Force Academy class of 2020 who are headed to the U.S. Space Force have received initial assignments as space operations officers.
Immediately after President Trump signed the 2020 NDAA on 2019-12-20, Air Force Space Command was renamed U.S. Space Force.
The U.S. Space Force was formally established in 2019.
Patrick Space Force Base and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station will continue to be maintained and supported by the U.S. Air Force after renaming.
The Space Force’s $1,000,000,000 unfunded priorities list was accompanied by a letter from Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond describing the proposed budget as a first step toward building the Space Force.
The Space Force’s 2021 budget request includes $1,050,000,000 for three National Security Space Launch missions.
The Space Force requested $255,000,000 to launch two GPS III satellites that are already in production at Lockheed Martin’s assembly line.
The Space Force unfunded priorities list requests $149,000,000 for on-orbit tests of the fifth Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) early warning satellite (GEO 5) and for integration of the final SBIRS satellite GEO 6.
The Department of Defense requested $15,400,000,000 for the Space Force in its fiscal year 2021 budget request.
The three National Security Space Launch missions funded in the Space Force 2021 budget request are codenamed AFSPC-36, AFSPC-87, and AFSPC-112.
The unfunded priorities submitted for fiscal year 2021 included $1,000,000,000 for the Space Force.
The satcom strategy titled "United States Space Force Vision for Satellite Communications" was approved by Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond on 2020-01-23.
The U.S. Space Force unveiled a plan on 2020-02-19 to change how it acquires satellite-based communications for the Defense Department.
The Space Force will develop a plan to supplement and replace the capacity provided by the Department of Defense’s Wideband Global Satcom constellation over the next decade as those satellites go out of service.
The Space Force vision states that multiple authorities buying multiple satcom products and services led to stovepiped satcom systems with limited ability for users to receive simultaneous operational benefits from multiple systems.
The Space Force 2021 budget request includes $43,000,000 for Fighting Satcom.
Air Force Space Command was renamed U.S. Space Force on 2019-12-20.