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 2020 National Defense Authorization Act directed the Space Development Agency to become part of the U.S. Space Force no later than 2022.
The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act created the U.S. Space Force and gives the Department of Defense and the Air Force flexibility to adjust the organization subject to conditions.
There are currently 24 Army officers and 14 Navy officers assigned to the U.S. Space Force headquarters.
The report delivered to congressional leaders on 2020-02-03 proposes that the Space Force will not have the traditional layers of bureaucracy.
The report proposes building the Space Force from the ground up using a clean-sheet approach to design a streamlined twenty-first century military service organizational structure.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, signed by President Trump on 2019-12-20, enacted the U.S. Space Force and created the office of the assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration.
Congress created the assistant secretary for acquisition and integration to oversee U.S. Space Force procurements under a chain of command separate from Air Force acquisition programs.
Barnes’ office has a staff of about 75 people and serves as the central coordinator between Space Force personnel in the Pentagon and in Colorado Springs.
On 2019-12-20, President Trump signed the law that created the U.S. Space Force by renaming U.S. Air Force Space Command and making it a separate military service.
A team of U.S. military and civilian defense officials spent most of 2019 drawing up plans to create a U.S. Space Force as a new service branch within the Department of the Air Force.
Space Force headquarters will be established at the Pentagon with a staff of 200.
Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett stated that about 16,000 personnel from Air Force Space Command have been assigned to the U.S. Space Force and that the transition will take about 18 months.
Congress included provisions creating the U.S. Space Force in the December 2019 deal on the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
President Trump publicly directed the Pentagon in June 2018 to create a U.S. Space Force, instructing then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford to implement the order.
The U.S. Marine Corps has about 180,000 personnel for comparison with the projected 16,000-person Space Force.
The intelligence community opposed merging the National Reconnaissance Office with the U.S. Space Force, while some stakeholders support transferring Air Force elements within the NRO that directly support satellite operations to the U.S. Space Force.
The NDAA directs that the Space Development Agency be moved from the oversight of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering to the U.S. Space Force by 2022.
The U.S. Space Force was established within the Department of the Air Force by renaming Air Force Space Command and directing the Department of Defense to form the new branch with existing Air Force resources.
In a 2019-12-02 memo, Secretary Barrett requested transfer of fiscal year 2020 Air Force funds to Space Force accounts including $9,300,000,000 for weapons systems and operations and $1,400,000,000 for weapons system sustainment.
President Donald Trump signed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act into law on 2019-12-20, enabling creation of the U.S. Space Force.