Space Force 2019 News

[spacemaverick]

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/12/10/heres-how-us-space-force-will-be-built.html

This is current news and my living on the Space Coast in Florida, anything space excites me.  I know about the information about Naval Space Command on The Living Moon but I thought this was interesting.  More to come.



http://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/05/17/air-forces-space-think-tank-studies-future-conflict-beyond-earth.html



News link:  http://spacenews.com/tag/space-force/

[spacemaverick]

I posted this because rehashing old news over and over again gets boring.  Hoping this will spark renewed interest in all things Space.

[spacemaverick]

http://www.defensenews.com/video/2019/08/26/space-command-to-stand-up-as-space-force-takes-shape/

blob:http://www.defensenews.com/679204ba-eb09-4b01-a58f-ce56ce1caf02

A video as to the structure of the  Space Force at the links above.  Department of Defense centered along with Intelligence Agencies.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/the-case-for-a-space-force-is-overwhelming-congress-paves-way-for-new-branch-of-military

Congressional support for Space Force.

[hoss58]

Hey Maverick, space news is always cool. I am on the other side of the state. I got to see the usual shuttle launches from my front yard looking east. One time i was watching through binoculars and  saw something strange move through the clouds during a launch.

Of course I also got to see the shuttle blow up. I was in zephyrhills fl. and was watching it go up while i was out surveying a section line for Florida Power.

[spacemaverick]

http://www.defensenews.com/congress/2019/12/17/congress-adopts-defense-bill-that-creates-space-force/



Congress has approved a compromise defense policy bill that creates a new Space Force in exchange for establishing paid parental leave for federal workers, as part of $738 billion for the Pentagon for 2020.

The Senate overwhelmingly approved the bill Tuesday, 82-8, just days after the House passed it, 377-48. The bill now goes to the White House for President Donald Trump's signature, and he has signaled he will sign the defense policy measure.

[The Seeker]

738 Billion for the defense budget; that is a number that boggles the mind, or it does my poor little grey matter 

Really does stimulate much thought about what all that is being spent on...

Thanks,Mav, keep digging, brother



Seeker

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

And then there's this:

Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31445/recently-retired-usaf-general-makes-eyebrow-raising-claims-about-advanced-space-technology

[spacemaverick]

And then there's this:

Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31445/recently-retired-usaf-general-makes-eyebrow-raising-claims-about-advanced-space-technology

Very interesting!

[The Seeker]

And then there's this:

Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31445/recently-retired-usaf-general-makes-eyebrow-raising-claims-about-advanced-space-technology

From the article at the link:

Recently retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Steven L. Kwast gave a lecture last month that seems to further signal that the next major battlefield will be outer space. While military leadership rattling the space sabers is nothing new, Kwast's lecture included comments that heavily hint at the possibility that the United States military and its industry partners may have already developed next-generation technologies that have the potential to drastically change the aerospace field, and human civilization, forever. Is this mere posturing or could we actually be on the verge of making science fiction a reality?

"The technology is on the engineering benches today. But most Americans and most members of Congress have not had time to really look deeply at what is going on here. But I've had the benefit of 33 years of studying and becoming friends with these scientists. This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour."

Lt. Gen. Kwast most recently served as Commander of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) at Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA), but retired in August. According to some reports, Kwast was prematurely relieved of his duties at JBSA and blacklisted for promotion after speaking out on space-related issues despite a service-wide gag order. Kwast declined to comment on the reports and retired on September 1, 2019.

Very interesting indeed 

Good find Sarge 

Seeker

[ArMaP]

738 Billion for the defense budget; that is a number that boggles the mind, or it does my poor little grey matter 

That amount is 8 times Portugal's total budget for 2019.

[spacemaverick]

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-military/2019/12/21/the-space-force-is-officially-the-sixth-military-branch-heres-what-that-means/

It's Official, Space Force is a new branch.

"Air Force officials on Friday told reporters that people are clamoring for information on how to join the military's latest branch. The short answer is, they're going to have to wait a while.

President Trump officially signed the Space Force into law Friday, but for now, all that means is everyone at Air Force Space Command will now be assigned to Space Force. Over the next 18 months, officials said, the finer details of manning and training the new branch will be hammered out and set in motion."

"It's going to be really important that we get this right. A uniform, a patch, a song ― it gets to the culture of a service," said Air Force Gen. Jay Raymond, the head of Air Force Space Command and U.S. Space Command, who will lead Space Force until a chief of space operations is confirmed by the Senate. "There's a lot of work going on toward that end. It's going to take a long time to get to that point, but that's not something we're going to roll out on day one."

Taken from the article on Air Force Times.

[spacemaverick]

http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2019/12/24/space-force-military-branch-trump-pence/2740830001/

Below is a portion of the article.  See the link above for the entire story from the Space Coast of Florida.

In addition to infrastructure, the new Space Command needs to figure out things like new uniforms and a logo.

"A uniform, a patch, a song — it gets to the culture of — of a service. And so we're not going to be in a rush to — to get something and not do that right. There's a lot of work going on towards that end," Raymond said.

It's assumed that the Space Force will continue to get its officers from the U.S. Air Force Academy for the foreseeable future, but perhaps will one day have its own institution.

STAR FLEET ANYONE?

[spacemaverick]

http://www.spaceforce.mil/

Active website above

http://www.facebook.com/USSpaceForceDoD

It has its own Facebook page.

http://twitter.com/SpaceForceDoD

It has its own Twitter account.

So far five military installations have been designated as Space Force bases: Patrick Air Force Base, Peterson, Schriever, and Buckley Air Force Bases in Colorado and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.



Interesting to me.

[The Seeker]

Interesting to me.

Hmm, all air force to start with, I see; wonder where Naval Space Command is going to fit in, or is this going to be more smoke and mirrors...

Interesting indeed, Mav 

Carry on and stay frosty...

Seeker

[spacemaverick]

Hmm, all air force to start with, I see; wonder where Naval Space Command is going to fit in, or is this going to be more smoke and mirrors...

Interesting indeed, Mav 

Carry on and stay frosty...

Seeker

Actually, most operations have been Air Force for a long time for at least the past 50 years.  I have lived on the Space Coast for almost that long and everything has been operated by the Air Force.  My opinion is the Navy had a secondary role.  Mybe it was smoke and mirrors before.