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Space Force to be Lean, Fast, SPOC Commander Says

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Space Force to be Lean, Fast, SPOC Commander Says
Chief Master Sgt. John Bentivegna, 14th Air Force command chief, Maj. Gen. John Shaw, 14th Air Force commander, and Col. Anthony Mastalir, 30th Space Wing commander, clap as the National Defense Authorization is signed establishing the United States Space Force Dec. 20, 2019, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Hanah Abercrombie)

As the military works to build the U.S. Space Force from the ground up, its goal is to be lean and equipped for the speed of warfighting in the coming century, said Maj. Gen. John Shaw, commander of Space Operations Command (SPOC), U.S. Space Force, and commander of the Combined Force Space Component Command (CFSCC), U.S. Space Command.  “It can’t be ponderous. It can’t be bureaucratic,” Shaw said Friday at a Mitchell Institute event. “It has to be lean if…

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