The Department of Defense (DOD) is a U.S. government agency responsible for military and national security space activities. It acts as a major procurer and operator of space systems, including launch vehicles and satellite systems for reconnaissance, missile launch detection, navigation, and communication. The DOD aims to maintain space superiority, integrate military space power, and ensure space stability, working with commercial firms to integrate space solutions into national security architectures.
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Tethers Unlimited is designing a satellite servicing vehicle called LEO Knight that leverages technologies developed for the U.S. Department of Defense and NASA.
The House Appropriations Committee will not support the Department of Defense’s $72,400,000 request to establish a Space Force.
The House Appropriations Committee approved the Department of Defense’s $83,000,000 request to establish United States Space Command and fully funded it at the requested level.
The Department of Defense requested $149,000,000 in fiscal year 2020 to create a new Space Development Agency within the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
The House Appropriations Committee cut the Department of Defense’s OPIR budget request by $201,000,000 for fiscal year 2020.
Capella Space submitted a bid earlier in 2020 for a Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research contract.
The Pentagon blueprint submitted to Congress creates a new Space Force branch of about 15,000 people mostly by transferring personnel from the other services.
The $1,500,000,000 reprogramming drew $818,500,000 from Department of Defense fiscal year 2019 appropriations.
The Department of Defense reprogrammed $1,500,000,000 from fiscal 2019 funds to pay for construction of a wall along the U.S.–Mexico border.
The draft bill provides $690,200,000,000 in discretionary spending for the Defense Department.
The draft bill’s $690,200,000,000 in discretionary Defense Department spending is $15,800,000,000 above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level.
The Pentagon requested $72,000,000 to begin standing up the Space Force headquarters.
The draft bill’s $690,200,000,000 in discretionary Defense Department spending is $8,000,000,000 below the Trump administration’s request.
The Department of Defense projects five-year costs of $2,000,000,000 for the Space Force.
The 2019-05-08 Congressional Budget Office report estimated that standing up an independent Space Force under the Air Force, a U.S. Space Command and a Space Development Agency would increase Department of Defense annual costs by $1,100,000,000 to $1,900,000,000 and incur one-time costs of $1,800,000,000 to $4,700,000,000.
The 2018 National Defense Authorization Act reassigned the principal space adviser role from Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson to Patrick Shanahan and directed him to study ways to reorganize the Department of Defense space enterprise.
In its fiscal year 2020 budget request, the Department of Defense requested $72,000,000 to stand up the Space Force, $83,000,000 to establish U.S. Space Command, and $149,000,000 for the Space Development Agency.
After President Trump directed the Department of Defense in June 2018 to stand up a Space Force as a separate military service, Patrick Shanahan led efforts to write a legislative proposal and persuade lawmakers to authorize the new branch.
For 2020, the Department of Defense requested $306,000,000 and 827 positions to begin creating the new space organizations.
The Trump administration’s fiscal year 2020 Pentagon budget request seeks funding for a Space Force, U.S. Space Command, and a Space Development Agency.