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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The Pentagon requested $20,000,000 in 2020 to develop a proliferated low Earth orbit sensor network for the Space Development Agency.
The Pentagon identified $98,000,000,000 of the $165,000,000,000 OCO request as base requirements that support the National Defense Strategy but are not war-related.
The Pentagon requested $30,000,000 in 2020 for LEO missile warning ground integration for the Space Development Agency.
The Pentagon requested $15,000,000 in 2020 for a space-based discrimination assessment for the Space Development Agency.
The Pentagon requested $15,000,000 in 2020 for a space-based interceptors study for the Space Development Agency.
The Office of Space Commerce plans, in partnership with the Department of Defense and other federal agencies, to assume no later than 2024 responsibility to provide conjunction analysis and other basic space flight safety services to civil and commercial users.
U.S. Strategic Command created the NC3 Enterprise Center at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, with a second location in the Washington area to design an NC3 blueprint and break down stovepipes across the Defense Department.
The Pentagon expects the B-21, Columbia-class submarine, and Ground Based Strategic Deterrent to start deploying in the mid to late 2020s.
The Department of Defense’s Space Force proposal would create a space branch led by a four-star chief and vice chief of staff and a civilian undersecretary.
Congress must revoke language in the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act that directs the Department of Defense to establish U.S. Space Command as a sub-unified command under U.S. Strategic Command before DoD can officially stand up U.S. Space Command as a unified command.
President Trump directed the Department of Defense on 2018-12-18 to establish a United States Space Command as a functional Unified Combatant Command.
The Pentagon requested $83,400,000 in the fiscal year 2020 budget proposal to stand up U.S. Space Command.
The Pentagon’s proposal seeks to create a top-heavy bureaucracy with two new four-star generals and a new Undersecretary of the Air Force to oversee a force of approximately 16,000 people.
The Pentagon’s proposal seeks broad authority to waive elements of civil service rules, pay rates, merit-based hiring, and senior civilian management practices for Department of Defense civilian employees.
The Pentagon estimated the new Space Force would cost $2,000,000,000 over five years.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and some lawmakers challenged Department of Defense leaders to justify creating the Space Development Agency given existing DoD organizations developing next-generation space technologies.
The Department of Defense is requesting $149,000,000 in fiscal year 2020 to get the Space Development Agency started.
The Pentagon produced a legislative proposal to establish a Space Force in 18 months after work that began in the fall of 2017 following a conversation with Representatives Mike Rogers and Jim Cooper.
The Pentagon is seeking authority from Congress for the Secretary of Defense to transfer up to 15,000 service members from other branches into the Space Force.
The Department of Defense requested $2,600,000,000 for hypersonic weapons technology in its fiscal year 2020 budget documents.