As the USSF nears its fifth anniversary, it is not as well established or understood as other military branches. Despite its relatively small size, the Space Force will have an increasingly ...

when the organization moved from Air Force Space Command to Air Combat Command. It later combined with Air Force intelligence units to create 16th Air Force at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on defense, strategy, the profession of arms, and aerospace. In a recent Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on ...

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond (left) hands the flag of the new Space Systems Command to Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein (right) during an Aug. 13 assumption of command ceremony at Los Angeles ...

The new organization, headquartered at Los Angeles Air Force Base, will be charged with developing, acquiring, fielding and sustaining space capabilities. Like SMC, the command will launch the Space ...

C.T. Michael/Air Guard) The Air Force has tapped Florida-based First Air Force as the new air component to U.S. Space ... from the organization’s longtime work with U.S. Northern Command and ...

If you just add a ‘k’ at the end of its acronym, you’ll see that America’s newest military command is witty. And leaders say Space Operations Command, or “SPOC,” pronounced like the ...

Its foundation, Thompson said, will be the now-defunct Air Force Space Command. A three-star general will be tapped to lead the new organization. Space Systems Command, or SSC — also led by a ...

The Air Force ... to support US Space Force, which was established in December and will provide forces and assets to Space Command. The new approach considers the "emerging organizational ...

The current language solely renames the existing Air Force Space Command — the primary organization that houses space personnel and capabilities within the Air Force — to the U.S. Space Force. The ...

According to the president’s FY20 budget request, the Space Force, U.S. Space Command and the Space Development Agency will need additional workers to staff those new offices. (Staff Sgt.

For example, the Department of Defense has long maintained an Air Force Space Command within the larger ... add more boxes to the organization chart and cost more money. If I had more money ...