All verified mentions of this organization in source documents.
The Pentagon plans to transfer thousands of service members, primarily from the Air Force, into the Space Force starting in 2021.
DoD’s approach to organizing the Space Force closely follows the approach used in 1947 to create the Air Force.
The Pentagon requested congressional authorization and $72,000,000 in 2020 to establish a Space Force headquarters in the Pentagon under the Department of the Air Force.
The Pentagon asked Congress to grant the secretary of defense special authorities over five years to move resources into the Space Force, similar to authorities used in 1947 to form the Air Force.
Pawlikowski indicates that the problem with speed in acquisition processes is not SMC, but the Pentagon’s procurement regulations.
The Air Force experimentation office is part of the Air Force Research Laboratory and works directly with Air Force and Department of Defense leaders at the Pentagon.
The Department of Defense requested a technical revision to the Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act to direct the establishment of a subordinate unified command for space under U.S. Strategic Command.
The Air Force considers it unrealistic for the Department of Defense to build its own LEO broadband systems that match the scale of commercial megaconstellations.
Retired Air Force Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski believes the SDA could be a valuable addition to the Defense Department by leveraging privately funded space technology.
The Department of Defense plans to build the Space Force mostly with existing resources by transferring personnel from the Air Force, Navy, and Army.
The Department of Defense plans to seek relief from doctrinal constraints that affect other services to support the Space Force.
Mike Griffin will work with the Pentagon’s comptroller and affected organizations to provide fiscal oversight and make determinations to effect transfers of funds to realign 2018-10-01 and 2019-10-01 resources.
Mike Griffin will work with the Department of Defense’s cost assessment and program evaluation office to evaluate resourcing for fiscal year 2021 and beyond.
Fred Kennedy has been selected to serve as the director of the Defense Department’s new Space Development Agency.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan backed Mike Griffin’s proposal for a Pentagon-led Space Development Agency intended to operate with fewer procurement constraints.
The Pentagon has had roughly eight months to assemble the Space Force plan after President Trump ordered its creation in June 2018.
The Pentagon projects the Space Force would reach a size of 12,000 to 15,000 people, most of whom would come from existing organizations.
A December memo from the Pentagon’s cost accounting office proposed $64,000,000 for Space Force headquarters in fiscal year 2020.
The Pentagon assesses that future Space Force costs could increase if the department takes more aggressive actions to build systems resiliency or create counter-space capabilities.
A Pentagon internal memo that shaped the Department of Defense fiscal year 2020 budget request estimated approximately $270,000,000 would be needed to stand up a Space Force headquarters, a Space Development Agency, and U.S. Space Command.