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Trump’s move of SPACECOM to Alabama has little to do with national security | The Pentagon says the move will save money, but acknowledges risk to military readiness.
The Pentagon says the move will save money, but acknowledges risk to military readiness.
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation concluded in 2022 that the Air Force did not follow "best practices" in formulating its recommendation to place Space Command in at Redstone Arsenal, leading to "significant shortfalls in its transparency and credibility." A separate report in 2022 from the Pentagon's own inspector general concluded the Air Force's basing decision process was "reasonable" and complied with military policy and federal law, but criticized the decision-makers' record-keeping. Officials at Redstone Arsenal and information technology experts at Space Command concluded it would take three to four years to construct temporary facilities in Huntsville with the same capacity, connectivity, and security as those already in use in Colorado Springs, according to the DoD inspector general.
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