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Jan. 22, 2021

New Defense Secretary arrives at Pentagon, convenes COVID meeting

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III arrived at the Pentagon today and hit the ground running, greeting the senior staff and then immediately heading into meetings on combating coronavirus.

Jan. 22, 2021

SPOC names Schriever orbital analyst Disbrow Award winner

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Former 2nd Space Operations Squadron subsystems analyst now Joint Task Force-Space Defense orbital analyst is named Space Operations Command's Air Force Association Lisa S. Disbrow Outstanding Civilian of the Year Award winner.

Jan. 19, 2021

Acting SecDef, SEAC visit newest combatant command, recognize members

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — The honorable Christopher C. Miller, acting Secretary of Defense, and Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Ramón “CZ” Colón-López, visited with U.S. Space Command leaders Jan. 13 to discuss the combatant command’s missions and to recognize some of the members executing those missions at Schriever Air Force Base.

Jan. 13, 2021

SecAF selects Huntsville, Alabama, as preferred location to host USSPACECOM

WASHINGTON (AFNS) — The Department of the Air Force conducted both virtual and on-site visits to assess which of six candidate locations would be best suited to host the U.S. Space Command Headquarters based on factors related to mission, infrastructure capacity, community support and costs to the Department of Defense.

Jan. 8, 2021

Space Delta 5 team wins $7,500 prize toward unit innovation in USSPACECOM competition

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A team from Space Delta 5 recently won a substantial cash prize after competing in the inaugural “Develop, Innovate, Visualize, Execute” competition, a product of the “Designing Space” innovation event sponsored by Air University in collaboration with U.S. Space Command.