The Space Force has officially expanded its concept for combining operations, sustainment, cyber, and intelligence functions all under one roof, dropping the “provisional” tag from units that kicked off the idea last year and transitioning two more Deltas and missions to the structure.
The Space Force stood up the 5th Space Warning Squadron and its Detachment 4 in Japan to oversee active/passive defense and attack operations for JTAGS, a new mission taken on from the Army.
The Rising Star, the Department of the Air Force’s only tugboat, guides cargo ships carrying vital supplies to keep Pituffik Space Base running through the dark Greenland winter.
Space Delta 4, the Space Force unit responsible for missile tracking and warning, is slated to take over a key system from the Army in October, its commander said March 6. The Joint Tactical Ground Stations, or JTAGS, are currently used by the Army to receive, ...
Space Force operators and intelligence specialists will work side by side in the future to deliver the full “TPED” intelligence cycle—“tasking, processing, exploitation, and dissemination”—said Space Force Lt. Gen. Stephen N. Whiting. Now that there is a Space Force, intelligence Guardians can be space specialists ...
The military installation in Aurora, Colorado, has cycled through several names in its 82-year history. On June 4, it received a new one—Buckley Space Force Base. Buckley was already home to Space Force’s Space Delta 4 and Buckley Garrison before the official renaming ceremony June ...
The Space Force on July 24 made major organizational changes, including inactivating wings and activating new commands, while selection boards are meeting to bring in thousands of new uniformed personnel. During a livestreamed ceremony, the Space Force inactivated three space wings and eight lower echelon ...