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NWF Daily News: New Space Force to be small military branch, employ 20,000 people
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Creation of a Space Force as a sixth branch of the U.S. military will be less about traditional military structure than about development and acquisition of weapons and other systems to address the now militarily contested arena of space, according to Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan.
“The Space Force has been about, ’How do we accelerate providing new space capabilities?” Shanahan said. “And so most of the conversation has been around, how do we change our development and acquisition process?”
Speaking with a small group of reporters from across the county by video conference late last week, Shanahan said the Space Force championed by President Donald Trump would be far smaller than other services. The combined military and civilian force would comprise about 20,000 people — approximately the size of Eglin Air Force Base, Shanahan noted.
Shanahan said the 20,000-person figure is based on the number of people across all of the military services now doing jobs that would be part of the Space Force mission.
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WNU Editor: I suspect that this will be a work in progress.
1 comment:
I suspect a complete culterf#$k from a rotten National Security state that hasn't won a war in 70 years. But, hey, the pay and benefits are great!
Pew! pew! pew! pew! pew!
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