{"id":17753,"date":"2021-05-28T17:46:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T17:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2021\/05\/28\/space-force-seeks-sizeable-budget-increase-reflecting-the-domains-importance\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:02:05","slug":"space-force-seeks-sizeable-budget-increase-reflecting-the-domains-importance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/space\/2021\/05\/28\/space-force-seeks-sizeable-budget-increase-reflecting-the-domains-importance\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Force seeks sizeable budget increase, reflecting the domain\u2019s importance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Space Force asked Congress Friday for $17.4 billion in its 2022 budget request, a bold 13 percent increase for the smallest service when overall military spending is expected to be nearly flat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The $2 billion increase is driven by both additional proposed investments in capabilities and the transfer of space-related funding from the other services to the Space Force \u2014 ostensibly beginning the long-awaited consolidation of space programs within the new service. The budget would invest in space launch vehicles and GPS and missile defense satellites for the domain that\u2019s increasingly important to future conflicts and joint war fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Space Force budget remains small compared to the other services, representing just 2.4 percent of the Department of Defense\u2019s $715 billion proposed budget. However, the fact that the Pentagon wants to provide more financial resources to the nascent service even as the U.S. Army budget is set to shrink by 2.3 percent to $173 billion demonstrates the growing priority of military space capabilities to DoD leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the fiscal 2022 budget proposal continues the transfer of U.S. Air Force programs and funding to the Space Force that began in the 2021 budget, it also includes the first transfers of U.S. Army and Navy satellite communications infrastructure to the new service. The Space Force will take over the U.S. Army and Navy\u2019s Global Command, Control, Communication, Intelligence (C3I) and Early Warning infrastructure and personnel to the tune of $143 million. Global C3I and Early Warning includes the survivable satellite communications systems needed to connect the nation\u2019s ballistic missile early warning capabilities and coordinate offensive strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Major drivers of the budget include $686 million for the procurement of two GPS III Follow-On satellites (the same number as last year), $1.3 billion for the purchase of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2020\/08\/07\/spacex-and-ula-win-massive-national-security-launch-contracts\/\" target=\"_blank\">five national security space launch vehicles<\/a> (three more vehicles than last year and $341 million more), and $132 million extra for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2021\/05\/27\/these-two-companies-will-build-digital-models-of-the-space-forces-new-missile-warning-sensors\/\" target=\"_blank\">Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared<\/a> to keep the program on track for an initial launch capability of the first polar satellite in 2028. The service also requested $3.4 billion for operations and maintenance, $11.3 billion for research, development, test and evaluation, and $2.8 million for procurement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At an organization level, the budget request provides $20 million to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2021\/01\/14\/space-force-joins-the-intelligence-community\/\" target=\"_blank\">establish a National Space Intelligence Center<\/a> and $43.2 million to establish the Space Warfighting Analysis Center, which will help generate operational concepts and force designs options for the Department of Defense. According to the Space Force, SWAC has already completed an initial force design for the joint missile warning\/missile tracking enterprise through cooperation with the Missile Defense Agency, Space Development Agency and National Reconnaissance Office. The budget request also includes $347 million to maintain and modernize its facilities and transfer facility operations support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision on whether to fund the Space Force at the requested amount lies in the hands of Congress, which will spend the coming months working through the lengthy budget process. Notably, House Armed Services Committee ranking member Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala, told Defense News in February that the nascent service would have no issue securing funding from Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2021\/02\/04\/hascs-new-lead-republican-on-making-space-force-permanent-and-budget-fights-to-come\/\">Rogers said the Space Force<\/a> \u201chas very unanimous support in the House Armed Services Committee and overwhelming support in the Senate Armed Services Committee. As long as it\u2019s got congressional support, we\u2019re going to be fine.\u201d He also said that declassifying more of what the Space Force does and the threats it\u2019s up against would help lawmakers convince the public the young service needs more support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2019\/12\/17\/congress-adopts-defense-bill-that-creates-space-force\/\">When it created the Space Force in 2019<\/a>, Congress gave the service just $40 million for fiscal 2020 to begin setting up \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/federal-budget\/2019\/03\/12\/heres-how-much-money-the-defense-department-wants-for-its-trio-of-new-space-organizations\/\">$32.4 million less than requested<\/a>. Then-Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett said at the time that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/breaking-news\/2019\/12\/21\/may-the-space-force-be-with-you-heres-what-we-know-about-the-us-militarys-newest-service\/\">the discrepancy wouldn\u2019t be a huge problem<\/a>, noting that the Space Force wouldn\u2019t need the full funding requested since approval came almost a quarter of the way through the fiscal year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If $40 million dollars doesn\u2019t sound like enough to fund the nation\u2019s massive space enterprise, that\u2019s because it\u2019s not. In fiscal 2020, the portfolio now overseen by the Space Force was funded under the U.S. Air Force\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For fiscal 2021, the Air Force passed its space portfolio over to the new Space Force, with the new service requesting $15.4 billion in its first budget request. According to the Air Force\u2019s calculations, that\u2019s $800 million more than the $14.6 billion the Air Force requested for the same portfolio in fiscal 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act that passed in December last year, Congress funded the Space Force slightly below that requested $15.4 billion, providing $76 million less. Lawmakers reduced funding for procurement and operations\/maintenance by $144 million and $17 million respectively, while increasing research, development, test and evaluation funding by $85 million. Overseas contingency operations (OCO), intended to fund wartime operations, were fully funded at the requested $77 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The head of the Space and Missile Systems Center said in November 2020 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2020\/11\/20\/pentagon-expected-to-increase-space-force-funding-in-coming-years\/\">he expected the Space Force\u2019s budget to grow<\/a> in the coming years, building on the nation\u2019s increased investment in national security space that began when the Pentagon declared space a war-fighting domain in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you thought space was going to be a priority in a kind of one-and-done way, that\u2019s not clearly what\u2019s been happening, right?\u201d said Lt. Gen. John Thompson during the Schriever Space Futures Forum. \u201cSo three years in a row budgets have gone to the Hill with foundational changes to the space budget.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That reflects a consensus among DoD leaders that there needs to be more investment in the military\u2019s space capabilities, Thompson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDuring the cycle the Deputy\u2019s Management Action Group, [or DMAG] \u2026 the folks that advise the secretary of defense on investment, continued to label space as one of the big strategic areas that DoD needs to address,\u201d Thompson explained. \u201cThe DMAG and many other DoD leaders are clearly sending a message that across the [Future Years Defense Program], the importance of the space enterprise is growing and needs to grow further.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The increase of 13 percent over last year&#8217;s budget request includes the transfer of 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