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WASHINGTON \u2014 In the four years since Congress established the U.S. Space Force, its budget has doubled. That growth needs to continue in order to meet the increasing demand for space capabilities, according to one of the service\u2019s top officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gen. David Thompson, who retires this week from his post as the vice chief of space operations, said that as the Space Force takes on new responsibilities and missions, it needs the resources to match<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe budget needs to grow because there are still more missions that are migrating to space,\u201d Thompson told C4ISRNET in an interview. \u201cThe challenge is, in this environment, defense budgets are likely not to grow significantly in the near future the way they have in the recent past. \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congress created the Space Force in December 2019, and a few months later revealed the service\u2019s fiscal 2021 budget request of $15.4 billion. That funding grew to $17.4 billion in fiscal 2022 and then to $24.5 billion in 2023. Its fiscal 2024 request, which is still working through the appropriations process, called for $30 billion.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A significant portion of that funding includes transfers from other military services and consolidating the Space Development Agency under the Space Force. Some represents budget growth for allocated high priority efforts like modernizing the service\u2019s missile warning and tracking satellites, transitioning to large constellations of small satellites and increasing its launch cadence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the coming years, the Space Force is poised to play a greater role in some missions that have traditionally been conducted by other services. For example, the Air Force will shift a portion of its ground moving target indicator mission to satellites<\/a> and the Space Force is exploring the possibility of taking responsibility for tracking moving air targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The service\u2019s satellite communication mission<\/a> is also expanding as space-based internet and inter-satellite links play a greater role in warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome of these missions that have been done in a benign environment or in environments where we have air superiority, they have to move to space,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cAll of that is mission growth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inflection point<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

As the Space Force takes on new missions, it is also working to make its existing systems more resilient against threats from adversaries like China<\/a>. Leaders have set 2027 as a target timeline for fielding key upgrades to the service\u2019s missile tracking satellite constellation, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompson also highlighted the Space Development Agency\u2019s space data transport network as another high-priority capability along with GMTI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are not going to be done by 2027,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I would say it\u2019s probably an inflection point. In some areas, we\u2019ll be a long way toward that pivot. In some, we\u2019ll be firmly midstream and others we\u2019ll just be starting. Some of that is a function of just laying in the resources and the work to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that how much progress the Space Force makes toward modernizing its architecture in the next few years will be a test of whether the processes and structures it has put into place since 2019 are working as planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe should have a very good assessment at that point as to whether we\u2019re well underway in meeting the challenge or finding struggles in areas that have us relooking at it,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cToday, the leading indicators are all very positive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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