The U.S. Space Force volition include uniformed service members drawn from the Air Force, Navy as well as Army — but it is non expected to include the National Reconnaissance Office mission, according an internal draft of the Pentagon’s computer program to usage a 6th branch of the military. Defense One reviewed a re-create of the 13-page document, which volition travel farther developed inwards coming months earlier the Pentagon sends it to Congress inwards Feb along with its 2020 budget request. This early on draft provides a glimpse into a 21st-century approach to creating a novel service branch, an examine non undertaken since 1947. Among other things, it reveals divergent views alongside senior Pentagon officials virtually how to construction it. For example, the document says the Space Force volition non “include the transfer of [the] strategic intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance mission of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). But the Space Force as well as the National Reconnaissance Office volition travel integrated through …NOTE FURTHER INPUTHERE LATER REGARDING DOD/IC integration.” Note that inwards a Sept. fourteen memo to Secretary Patrick Shanahan, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson Deputy Defense recommended including NRO inwards the Space Force.
The draft document calls for Space Force to absorb parts of Air Force Space Command, the Navy’s Space as well as Naval Warfare Systems Command, the Naval Satellite Operations Center, as well as the Army’s 1st Space Brigade.
The document says the installations as well as facilities where those units are based volition rest purpose of their respective services until the Space Force “reaches an appropriate operating capacity.” There are 6 Air Force Space Command bases: iii inwards Colorado, 2 inwards California as well as i inwards Florida. The Army’s 1st Space Brigade is based inwards Colorado. The Navy’s San Diego-based SPAWAR has facilities or as well as thus the world. The Naval Satellite Operations Center is at Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California.
The existing armed services services would nonetheless “retain organic infinite capabilities uniquely designated to back upwards that Service’s or organization’s mission,” the document says. “Additionally, each Service may retain a cadre of infinite experts that serve every bit liaisons to advocate for as well as potentially travel space-related capabilities unique to its respective domain.”
Among the Space Force’s missions: infinite situational advantage; battle administration command as well as command of infinite forces; infinite elevator as well as arrive at operations; infinite back upwards to nuclear command as well as control; missile warning; satellite communications as well as position, navigation as well as timing.
“The Space Force volition exclusively travel responsible for those missions straight associated with articulation infinite operations,” the document says.
Missions that “that are tangentially associated with space” — including nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles, cyber operations as well as “the overall missile defence missions” — volition non travel purpose of the Space Force, at to the lowest degree initially.
“Inclusion of these missions into the Space Force may travel reevaluated inwards the future, every bit necessary,” the document states.
Pentagon officials take away maintain stressed their wishing non to add together layers of bureaucracy. Wilson, inwards September, said an additional 13,000 people would travel needed. The draft Space Force proposal mentions a “lean headquarters model,” but does non listing whatever numbers.
However, the computer program says that the novel branch would take away maintain a secretarial assistant as well as master copy of staff, who would travel a fellow member of the Joint Chiefs. It also talks of creating a Space National Guard as well as Space Force Reserve.
The computer program talks of creating a “pilot program” to enable the Space Force “to larn talent from the civilian marketplace seat inwards a rapid vogue for a defined menstruum afterward which the private would render to civilian life.”
The draft does non including funding estimates, but has placeholders for a budget proposal as well as a “Defense Space Strategy.” Wilson, inwards her proposal, said it would probable damage taxpayers an additional $13 billion over 5 years to usage the Space Force. Defense budget analyst Todd Harrison, of the Center for Strategic as well as International Studies, called her take away maintain “the highest approximate I intend yous could peradventure come upwards up with.”
Earlier this month, Shanahan said Pentagon officials would travel figuring out the Space Force budget inwards Oct as well as November.
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