House strategic forces mark would create new numbered Air Force for space

By Courtney Albon / April 26, 2018 at 3:27 PM
The House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee is recommending the creation of a new numbered Air Force that would be responsible for the service's warfighting operations and could lay the groundwork for a future Space Corps. The new organization, proposed in the subcommittee's mark of fiscal year 2019 defense policy legislation released April 25, would replace the 24th Air Force at Air Force Space Command, which will move to Air Combat Command to execute a cyber mission for U.S. Cyber...

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