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On 2020-05-15 the U.S. Air Force opened a bidding process to select the permanent location of U.S. Space Command headquarters.
U.S. Space Command was established in August 2019 as the military’s 11th unified combatant command.
The process to select a permanent headquarters for U.S. Space Command was re-opened on 2020-03-04 to give state and local leaders a fresh opportunity to make their pitches.
Bids to host the permanent U.S. Space Command headquarters are due 2020-06-30.
The Air Force expects to select the permanent U.S. Space Command headquarters location in early 2021 and estimates it will take up to six years to build new facilities.
Eligible communities must be within the top 150 largest U.S. metropolitan areas and located within 40.2 km of a military base to compete to host U.S. Space Command.
When Task Force 45 is deployed, it will report to Maj. Gen. John Shaw, the commander of U.S. Space Command’s Combined Force Space Component at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
45th Operations Group Detachment 3 is part of the U.S. Space Force’s 45th Space Wing but reports directly to U.S. Space Command when it deploys for a mission.
LinQuest Corp. won a $9,200,000 contract a year ago to help with the standup of U.S. Space Command.
LinQuest Corp. received a $14,000,000 contract for support services to U.S. Space Command last month.
Invited witnesses for the 2020-05-06 hearing include Dana Deasy, the Pentagon’s chief information officer; Michael Griffin, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering; Thad Allen, former commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard; and Gen. John Raymond, chief of space operations and commander of U.S. Space Command.
U.S. Space Command was tracking two objects associated with Iran’s 2020-04-22 launch and characterized Nour-1 as a 3U cubesat that is tumbling and unlikely to provide intelligence.
U.S. Space Command provides GPS-based services used by the U.S. military and by the global civilian economy.
About 60 LinQuest employees work full-time at U.S. Space Command at the command’s primary locations at Peterson Air Force Base and Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado.
Towberman served in the Air Force for 30 years before becoming the senior enlisted adviser of U.S. Space Command and the Space Force.
U.S. Space Command awarded a $14,000,000 contract to LinQuest for support services on 2020-04-15.
LinQuest received a $9,200,000 contract one year earlier to help with the standup of U.S. Space Command.
U.S. Space Command units that routinely provide space-based services — satellite communications, weather data, missile warning, and GPS navigation — are operating stateside and at overseas locations despite restrictive health protection measures during the pandemic.
U.S. Space Command units that operate communications satellites provided additional bandwidth to the USNS Mercy hospital ship that arrived in Los Angeles on 2020-03-27.
The 2021 budget includes $1,050,000,000 to fund three Air Force Space Command missions code named AFSPC-36, AFSPC-87 and AFSPC-112.