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Congress included DoD’s 2019 budget in consolidated spending bill H.R. 6157, which also provided full-year funding for Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.
Budget analyst Mike Tierney of Velos concluded that congressional appropriators provided for space in 2019 pretty much exactly what the DoD requested.
DoD projected $9,200,000,000 for space in 2020, $8,700,000,000 in 2021, $9,600,000,000 in 2022, and $9,500,000,000 in 2023 in its budget projections.
Congress provided $8,100,000,000 for Defense Department investments in space systems in the fiscal year 2019 appropriations bill.
The Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress operates a national security space program that is developing recommendations for how the Pentagon could work better with the commercial space industry.
President Donald Trump issued a 2018-12-18 memo instructing the Pentagon to establish a United States Space Command as a functional Unified Combatant Command.
A draft space policy directive orders the Defense Department to establish a U.S. Space Force as a sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces within the Department of the Air Force.
The Pentagon is finalizing a legislative proposal and budget request for fiscal year 2020 to submit to the White House that recommends creating a Space Force with its own four-star chief of staff and a civilian undersecretary of space under the Department of the Air Force.
Congress included a provision in the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act prohibiting the Defense Department from awarding or renewing EELV contracts after 2022 for rockets that use Russian engines.
The CBO characterizes its $77,000,000,000 estimate for future NC3 costs as probably conservative because much remains unknown about Pentagon plans to acquire new satellites and airborne command centers.
The CBO estimates the Department of Defense will need to budget $77,000,000,000 from 2019 to 2028 to maintain and modernize nuclear command, control, communications, and early warning systems (NC3).
The CBO attributes a $19,000,000,000 increase in NC3 costs to the need to replace the Pentagon’s aging fleet of four airborne command centers and to acquire new early warning and communications satellites.
Joseph Cirincione of the Ploughshares Fund argued that the MDR's call for further study of space-based interceptors indicates the Pentagon is not convinced the technology can work or that deploying such weapons is smart policy.
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act directs the Department of Defense to complete a plan and initiate development of a space-based missile defense sensor architecture.
Appropriators added $73,000,000 to the Department of Defense’s 2019 budget to begin work on a space-based missile defense sensor architecture.
The Pentagon’s existing missile warning satellites, the Space Based Infrared System, operate in high and geostationary Earth orbits to detect launches such as intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Congress directed the Department of Defense in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 to identify the most promising technologies and estimate a schedule, cost, and personnel requirements for a space-based defensive layer.
The Department of Defense is committed to creating a Space Development Agency as a joint organization like the Strategic Capabilities Office to rapidly develop and field the next generation of space capabilities.
The U.S. military obtains observations for U.S. Central Command from EUMETSAT’s Meteosat 8 geostationary weather satellite.
The Department of Defense must request funding for the Space Force in the fiscal year 2020 budget proposal due 2019-02-04.