SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. –
U.S. Senator Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, toured key U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command missions May 14 at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. During the visit, King and his staff received updates regarding USSPACECOM’s Joint Task Force-Space Defense and USSF organizations, including Space Operations Command, deltas and squadrons, the Space Security and Defense Program and the Space Warfighting Analysis Center.
The subcommittee's duties include:
- Responsibilities: Nuclear and strategic forces; arms control and non-proliferation programs; space programs; Department of Energy defense nuclear, and defense environmental management programs; and ballistic missile defense.
- Oversight of budget accounts: Procurement and RDT&E for DOD nuclear and strategic forces, missile defense, space systems, Department of Energy defense and non-proliferation programs.
- Oversight of DOD and DOE officials Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs; National Nuclear Security Administration; and Assistant Secretary of Energy (Environmental Management).
- Oversight of agencies, commands, and activities: U.S. Strategic Command; U.S. Space Command, U.S. Space Force as well as other components of the military departments; Space Development Agency; Missile Defense Agency; National Nuclear Security Administration; Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; and Defense Threat Reduction Agency.