Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, in the black suit, visits Los Angles Air Force Base, home of the Space and Missile Systems Center, in August 2018. USAF
Warzone/The Drive: Star Wars: DOD Execs and the USAF Are Already Battling Over A Non-Existent Space Force Budget
Dueling cost estimates also distract from the reality that there's still no firm understanding of the proposed new service's structure and role.
As seemed almost inevitable from the start, the Pentagon and the U.S. Air Force are sparring over their respective cost estimates for what it would take to create a Space Force. With so many questions still unanswered about what the new independent service would do, it’s very likely that neither party’s figures are entirely accurate, but the debate itself highlights some of the most serious pitfalls of the entire enterprise of creating a new military branch.
On Nov. 15, 2018, Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, who is in charge of planning for the new Space Force and its associated components, said his team has determined it would cost less than $10 billion, and perhaps even less than $5 billion, to establish the service. In September 2018, a leaked memo showed that Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson had pegged the new branch’s price tag at nearly $13 billion.
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More News On The Space Force's Budget
Proposed U.S. Space Force budget could be less than $5 billion: deputy defense secretary -- Reuters
Trump’s military Space Force will cost ‘less than $5bn’ Pentagon official says -- The Independent
Senior Defense Officials Offer Dueling Pricetags for Space Force -- Defense One
Here’s what the Pentagon thinks the actual cost of a Space Force will be -- Defense News
Political odds stacked against Space Force. Proponents brace for long fight -- Space News
1 comment:
Space Force. I support the President and this is one area I am unsure of the need. I would support the creation of a Space Force if the useless Dept. of Homeland Security would be disbanded. They are useless except for groping the genitals of women and children. The Space Force could have 1/2 of their budget.
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