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The Pentagon will establish a Space Development Agency to develop and field space capabilities at speed and scale.
The Pentagon will develop a Space Operations Force to provide expertise to combatant commanders and the Space Development Agency and to surge expertise in time of crisis.
The Department of Defense will create the governance and support functions of the Space Force and will build a legislative proposal for congressional consideration as part of the Fiscal Year 2020 budget cycle.
Without new legislation and using existing authorities, the Department of Defense will establish several component parts of the Space Force.
The DoD report states the Department of Defense will establish an affordable and efficient operating structure with accountable civilian oversight to provide service and support functions for the Space Force.
An earlier draft of the Pentagon space reorganization report was dated 2018-07-30 and was obtained by Defense One, which published its contents on 2018-07-31.
Observers have raised the possibility that the Department of Defense could recommend a unified Space Command instead of creating a separate military service.
LauncherOne is scheduled to conduct its first military mission in 2019 as part of the DoD Space Test Program overseen by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center.
President Donald Trump on 2018-06-18 ordered the Pentagon to form an independent branch of the military focused on space.
Since 2009 the Department of Defense has used three commercially hosted payloads and had three more missions planned or underway through 2022.
Language in the Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act directs the Pentagon to assume oversight of military investments in hosted payloads.
President Donald Trump on 2018-06-18 ordered the Pentagon to form a sixth branch of the military dedicated to space.
The Defense Department Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy released the final request for proposals for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud, a procurement projected to be worth $10,000,000,000.
The Pentagon decided that U.S. Strategic Command will be solely in charge of the nuclear command, control and communications systems for the president.
The Pentagon’s Nuclear Posture Review raised alarms about the outdated state of the NC3 system.
The Pentagon is establishing a Joint Artificial Intelligence Center to be led by Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy.
Increased investment levels for NASA and the Department of Defense under the 2017 Congressional Omnibus will improve the outlook for manufacturers in the industry’s defense and space sectors.
The Trump administration assigned space traffic management duties to the Commerce Department and directed the Pentagon to create a dedicated military service for space.
Symantec detected a China-affiliated hacker group called Thrip last year that attacked two satellite companies, a U.S. Defense Department contractor, and a geospatial-imaging firm and was actively seeking ways to take control of satellites in space.
The Pentagon conducted an 18-month congressionally mandated study on how best to acquire satellite communications capacity that was completed 2018-06-25.