Florida’s congressional delegation and governor are pushing hard for the Pentagon to base its future U.S. Space Command in the Sunshine State. A bipartisan group of House members led by House Armed Services Committee (HASC) members Reps. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) and Bill Posey (R-Fla.) on Tuesday ...

President Trump has signed off on a directive that would put the Air Force in charge of the Space Force, pending congressional approval. Trump signed Space Policy Directive-4 (SPD-4) Feb. 19, marking the first official administration notice outlining the president’s coveted Space Force. The scope, ...

The Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General (DOD OIG) plans to evaluate 11 separate efforts related to space, nuclear deterrence and missile defense in fiscal year 2019, including whether the Air Force properly certified SpaceX for military launch missions. The DOD OIG released its ...

The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (AFSMC) on Thursday awarded Engility, which is now owned by SAIC [SAIC], a $655 million firm-fixed-price, cost-reimbursement contract for services to support the center’s forthcoming Enterprise Ground Services effort, a unified satellite ground ...

The Defense Department has identified a potential leader for the new U.S. Space Command and is currently moving the candidate through the vetting process, Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said Jan. 29 at the Pentagon. In his first official press briefing since assuming the role Jan. 1, ...

A top Air Force official said industry partners will see an increasing role as a “powerful arm of our national security and economic viability” in space over the next year as the service looks to expand commercial launches and grow its new experimental space technology consortium, Lt. Gen. ...