News - Category DOD

Sept. 7, 2022
15th SPSS: Vigilant Guardians of the Heavens

Steve Upton, 15th Space Surveillance Squadron, Detachment 1 cyber security systems manager, poses next to a ground-based, electro-optical deep space surveillance sensor at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., Aug. 26, 2022. As a vital part of the Space Surveillance Network, the 15th SPSS’s GEODSS
July 12, 2022
Space Base Delta 1 welcomes new commander

PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. – Space Base Delta 1 held its change of command at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado, July 11, 2022.
June 30, 2022
Schriever SFB welcomes new space squadron, commander

The 53rd Space Operations Squadron unfurled their colors during an activation ceremony at The Hub on Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado, June 29, 2022.The activation of 53rd SOPS, assigned under Space Delta 8 – Satellite Communications and Navigational Warfare, signified the transfer of the 53rd
April 19, 2022
Capt Daniel Reynolds Space Force first Sapper

U.S. Space Force Captain Daniel Reynolds recently became the first Guardian to graduate from the U.S. Army’s Sapper Leader Course. This demanding 28-day leadership development program is designed to create elite combat engineers across the joint force in all aspects of mobility, counter mobility,
April 18, 2022
STARCOM Integrates Innovation, Achieves ‘Firsts’ in SPACE FLAG 22-2

The Space Training and Readiness Command completed the fourteenth iteration of their SPACE FLAG exercise (SPACE FLAG 22-2) designed to ready space warfighters to defend US and our coalition partners’ interests in space, while simultaneously deterring adversary aggression and denying their actions in
April 15, 2022
Space Operations Command 2021 Outstanding Space Warfighters of the Year

Space Operations Command 2021 Outstanding Space Warfighters of the Year
April 5, 2022
Kendall highlights space’s importance, need to ‘transform’ operations & thinking for the domain

Presenting a robust case for operating in – and defending – space, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said April 5 that “transforming” without delay priorities, practices and spending for the domain is necessary to adequately adapt to a theater that is more volatile yet also increasingly essential to
April 5, 2022
Raymond praises Space Force achievements & purpose while noting ongoing threats, challenges

Using language that was both stark and an urgent call to action, Chief of Space Operations, Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond, said April 5 that the cornerstone to U.S. security and prosperity is keeping space “accessible, stable, and secure.”
Feb. 23, 2022
DOD, Partners Release Combined Space Ops Vision

The United States joins Australia, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom in the joint release of the Combined Space Operations Vision 2031.
Jan. 27, 2022
DOD Places Variety of Troops on 'Prepare to Deploy'

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III placed a range of U.S. military units comprising 8,500 troops on a heightened preparedness to deploy should Russia invade Ukraine, and those units have been named, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said.