{"id":19206,"date":"2021-02-05T02:07:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T02:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/02\/05\/governor-urges-biden-administration-to-keep-space-command-us-lands-agency-in-colorado\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:54:09","slug":"governor-urges-biden-administration-to-keep-space-command-us-lands-agency-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/2021\/02\/05\/governor-urges-biden-administration-to-keep-space-command-us-lands-agency-in-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor urges Biden administration to keep Space Command, US lands agency in Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DENVER \u2014 Gov. Jared Polis is urging the Biden administration to keep the headquarters of two key U.S. government agencies in Colorado, arguing the U.S. Space Command and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/2019\/07\/17\/feds-moving-land-agency-will-save-money-improve-decisions\/\" target=_blank>the Bureau of Land Management <\/a>serve the nation\u2019s interests better if they stay where they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polis\u2019 office released a letter Thursday urging Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to review the Donald Trump administration\u2019s Jan. 13 announcement \u2014 just a week before Trump\u2019s term ended \u2014 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2021\/01\/13\/us-space-command-site-to-be-located-in-huntsville-alabama\/\" target=_blank>the new U.S. Space Command headquarters<\/a> will be in Huntsville, Alabama, home to the U.S. Army\u2019s Redstone Arsenal. The command provisionally is located at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2020\/05\/17\/colorado-springs-to-house-us-space-command-for-at-least-6-years\/\" target=_blank>Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force announcement stunned Colorado leaders, who insisted U.S. military officials had urged then-President Trump to keep the command at Peterson. After meeting with Polis before a campaign rally in Colorado Springs in February 2020, Trump himself strongly hinted to rousing cheers that the command would stay put.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2021\/01\/13\/us-space-command-site-to-be-located-in-huntsville-alabama\/\" 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\/AP21013707208369.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\">US Space Command site to be located in Huntsville, Alabama<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The U.S. Air Force is expected to announce Huntsville, Alabama, as the location for the U.S. Space Command headquarters, according to Alabama\u2019s governor.<\/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\">\u201cWithout a review, this hasty decision will undermine our country\u2019s ability to respond to national security threats in space,\u201d Polis wrote in the letter dated Monday and co-signed by Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers, Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera and several state lawmakers. \u201cWe have concerns about the transparency, impartiality, and bias of the process that the previous administration used when coming to a final decision,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An email requesting comment from the Defense Department wasn\u2019t immediately answered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some suggested politics may have been at play in the decision: Trump won Alabama in the November election and Joe Biden won Colorado. Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, who represents Colorado Springs, asked  the General Accounting Office this week to review the Air Force decision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMany questions have been raised as to whether the decision was made on objective rather than political grounds,\u201d Lamborn said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among other duties, the Space Command enables satellite-based navigation and troop communication and provides warning of missile launches. Also based at Peterson are the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, and the U.S. Northern Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Space Command differs from t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/02\/03\/space-force-is-looking-for-a-few-good-soldiers-sailors\/\" target=_blank>he U.S. Space Force<\/a>, launched in December 2019 as the first new military service since the Air Force was created in 1947. The Space Command is not an individual military service but a central command for military-wide space operations. It operated at Peterson from 1985 until it was dissolved in 2002 and was revived in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huntsville was chosen after Air Force site visits to Alabama, Colorado, Florida, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2021\/01\/10\/nebraska-bid-to-attract-space-command-to-offutt-air-force-base-includes-107-million\/\" target=_blank>Nebraska<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2021\/01\/10\/officials-tour-possible-space-command-site-at-new-mexicos-kirtland-air-force-base\/\" target=_blank>New Mexico<\/a> and Texas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2020\/11\/19\/here-are-the-six-locations-that-could-host-the-new-us-space-command\/\" target=_blank>competing for the command headquarters<\/a>. The Huntsville decision is subject to environmental review, expected by 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polis also urged President Joe Biden to keep the BLM headquarters in Grand Junction. The Trump administration moved the headquarters of the agency from Washington, D.C., to Colorado, arguing it would better serve the agency\u2019s oversight of nearly 388,000 square miles (1 million square kilometers) of federal public land \u2014 99 percent of it in the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI implore you to think of this as an opportunity for better communication, better policy and better government, rather than just associating this with the many other misguided legacies of your predecessor,\u201d the Democratic governor wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, the GAO faulted the Trump administration for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/hr\/2019\/12\/16\/land-management-employees-could-be-eligible-for-new-jobs-or-early-retirement\/\" target=_blank>failing to involve BLM employees<\/a> in its plans to reorganize the bureau\u2019s headquarters staff. The bureau, part of the Interior Department, has about 10,000 employees, most of them in field offices in the West. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interior planned to move more than 320 headquarters jobs from Washington to Grand Junction \u2014 but only 41 people moved, and 287 others either retired or found new jobs rather than move between July 2019 and December, Interior spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz said Jan. 28. Some 100 out of 480 Washington headquarters positions were vacant, Schwartz said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Interior Department\u2019s new leadership will work with BLM career staff to understand the ramifications of the headquarters move and determine if any adjustments need to be made,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. 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