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HASC Chair Rogers Calls For Senior DoD Officials To Testify On Space Command HQ Decision

HASC Chair Rogers Calls For Senior DoD Officials To Testify On Space Command HQ Decision
Pictured is the U.S. Space Command Joint Operations Center, what the command calls the commander’s strategic-level command and control node. The center receives constant inputs from functional and service component operations centers, national government agencies, space partners, and additional world-wide data sources to assess the space domain, detect significant events, provide a unified operational picture and supervise execution of USSPACECOM’s authorities, operations and capabilities., the command said (U.S. Space Command Photo)

The chair of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) has asked three senior Pentagon officials to testify on the Biden administration’s decision to keep U.S. Space Command headquartered in Colorado over a previous plan to move it to his home state of Alabama. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), the HASC chair, said on Tuesday he’s invited Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, Army Gen. James Dickinson, head of Space Command, and Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman for a…

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