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Space

U.S. Space Force Submits First POM, As Service Looks to Counter China and Russia Advances

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, October 27th, 2020

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U.S. Space Force Submits First POM, As Service Looks to Counter China and Russia Advances

Airmen from the 4th Space Control Squadron take a picture in front of the L3Harris Counter Communications System Block 10.2 on March 12 at Peterson AFB, Colo. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

While the U.S. Space Force hopes to get its own service acquisition executive soon, the newest military service submitted its first Program Objective Memorandum (POM) budget proposal to DoD in the last few months, as Space Force looks to build on U.S. space strengths and counter space technological advances made by China and Russia. "It is clear today that space is a warfighting domain, just like air, land, and sea, and I couldn't have said that five or six years…

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