{"id":35051,"date":"2019-03-26T17:59:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T17:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2019\/03\/26\/trump-space-corps-proposal-has-the-right-stuff-shanahan-tells-congress\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:08:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:08:44","slug":"trump-space-corps-proposal-has-the-right-stuff-shanahan-tells-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/c2-comms\/satellites\/2019\/03\/26\/trump-space-corps-proposal-has-the-right-stuff-shanahan-tells-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Space Corps proposal has the right stuff, Shanahan tells Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 A day after House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith said he plans to scrap the Trump administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2019\/03\/01\/space-force-to-cost-2-billion-include-15000-personnel-in-first-five-years\/\" target=_blank>Space Force proposal<\/a>, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs defended that proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The remarks came Tuesday at an HASC hearing after Smith announced he would look for alternatives, either in or separate from the annual National Defense Authorization Act. Smith ripped the proposed organization as \u201ctop-heavy\u201d and accused the administration of attempting to undercut legal protections for federal employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month, the Pentagon revealed its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/federal-budget\/\" target=_blank>fiscal 2020 budget request<\/a>, which would spend about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2019\/03\/01\/space-force-to-cost-2-billion-include-15000-personnel-in-first-five-years\/\" target=_blank>$2 billion over five years on the Space Force and see roughly 15,000 space-related personnel transfer<\/a> from existing roles to the new organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cParticularly around procurement and delivering capability, we have 10 different organizations in the department right now,\u201d Shanahan said Tuesday. \u201cThis is an opportunity to have commonality across the whole department, something we have never been able to achieve. With that singular focus, we can drive greater integration into the combatant commands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/space\/2019\/03\/26\/air-forces-top-space-officer-tapped-to-lead-us-space-command\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3315081.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Air Force\u2019s top space officer tapped to lead US Space Command<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">If confirmed, this general will have a dual-hat role: as commander of U.S. Space Command and his current position as head of Air Force Space Command.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Smith has objected to the proposal\u2019s addition of two new four-star generals and a new undersecretary of the Air Force, as well as the inclusion of \u201can almost unlimited seven-year personnel and funding transfer authority that seeks to waive a wide range of existing laws \u2014 all without a detailed plan or analysis of the potential end state or cost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both Smith and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afge.org\/globalassets\/documents\/defend-our-jobs\/2019\/establishing-a-space-force.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">American Federation of Government Employees<\/a>, which counts 300,000 Defense Department civilians in its ranks, voiced objections to the administration\u2019s proposed exemption of its employees from key labor management relations law. Smith said the request for broad authority to \u201cwaive long-standing and effective elements of civil service rules, pay rates, merit-based hiring and senior civilian management practices\u201d is an \u201cattack on the rights of DoD civilian employees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alluding to those issues, House Strategic Forces Subcommittee Chairman Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., asserted Congress would be able to tailor the Trump administration\u2019s proposal to remove \u201cpoison pills,\u201d and otherwise seemed to praise it as being close to the Space Corps proposal that passed the House Armed Services Committee two years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Working in the Trump proposal\u2019s favor is a $2 billion price tag that dwarfs an earlier $13 billion estimate; its status as subordinate to the Air Force; and the request that Space Force be upgraded to a unified combatant command, Cooper said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn these various ways, keeping it under the Air Force, not spending that much money and making it a command, we\u2019re pretty much in sync on these priorities, right?\u201d Cooper said. \u201cI hope that we can work together to smooth out any rough edges in the proposal, not only to pass the House but pass the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saying \u201cthe basic elements are in place,\u201d Shanahan said administration\u2019s plan addresses Smith\u2019s concerns about bureaucracy and cost in the near term and paves the way for future integration with the intelligence community, and the corps\u2019 growth into its own military department in the long term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. 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We think of things that we wouldn\u2019t have otherwise thought about without him in the room,\u201d Dunford said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/space\/2019\/03\/13\/house-democrats-to-give-trumps-space-force-a-makeover\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1003471392.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">House Armed Services to give Trump\u2019s Space Force a makeover<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee says the president&#039;s Space Force proposal will not survive his panel.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rep. 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