AFMC leadership team meets with Space Airmen, discusses MAJCOM servicing role for Space Force
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The trip was an opportunity for the team to talk directly to Airmen about what it means for AFMC to be the servicing major command to U.S. Space Force and answer questions related to how it would impact their career and personal growth as they serve under the newest Department of Defense organization.
Raymond describes Space Force achievements, plans, challenges ahead
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Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond illustrates how the Space Force is purpose built for success at a time when the nation can no longer take space for granted Sept. 21.
Kendall, Raymond stress importance of space and Space Force’s success in separate, high-profile speeches
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Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall and Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond highlight the importance of space during speeches at the 36th Space Symposium.
AFMC takes on role as servicing major command for Space Force
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Recently, the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force took steps to define AFMC’s role as the designated servicing MAJCOM for U.S. Space Force.
Senate confirms Gina Ortiz Jones to be Air Force Under Secretary
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In explaining the basis for choosing Jones, the White House highlighted that she was commissioned through the Air Force ROTC program while a student at Boston University and “has spent her career working to protect U.S. economic and national security.”
FAA, Department of the Air Force sign commercial space agreement
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The agreement recognizes common safety standards for FAA-licensed launch and reentry activities that occur on, originate from, or return to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Air, Space Forces leaders discuss, defend budget requests in congressional hearings
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Across two days of hearings before the House Armed Services Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee, Acting Secretary of the Air Force John P. Roth, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., and Chief of Space Operations Gen. John “Jay” Raymond laid out both the near term and longer range budget and operational plans.
X-37B spaceplane wins Collier Trophy for advancing ‘the boundaries of flight and space exploration’
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The Department of the Air Force’s X-37B spaceplane, a reusable, multi-purpose, system that operates without an onboard crew, won the prestigious Robert J. Collier Trophy Aug. 13 for advancing technology that pushes “the boundaries of flight and space exploration.”
USSF field command structure reduces command layers, focuses on space warfighter needs
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The Department of the Air Force and the United States Space Force have finalized the new service’s organizational structure for echelons below the headquarters, reflecting the newest branch of the armed forces’ guiding principles of being a lean, agile and mission-focused organization.
Barrett, Raymond speak with US astronaut ahead of historic launch
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The conversation with Behnken, an Air Force colonel, came six days before the scheduled May 27 launch of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft in Florida. The launch and the mission to the International Space Station (ISS) are significant because it is the first time since the space shuttle was retired in 2011 that a U.S.-manufactured rocket rising from a U.S. spaceport is taking astronauts into space.