March 17, 2023

Schriever Wargame 2023 set to begin

Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM) will conduct the sixteenth Schriever Wargame at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama starting March 20, 2023.

March 14, 2023

Schriever SFB hosts event center re-grand opening

SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — Guardians and Airmen from the 50th Force Support Squadron celebrated the re-grand opening of the Schriever Event Center with a ribbon cutting ceremony March 10, 2023.

March 13, 2023

SpOC Activates Delta 15

Schriever Space Force Base, Colo. — Space Operations Command activated its newest unit, Delta 15, during a ceremony at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, March 10, 2023.  

March 12, 2023

Rep. Turner, Rep. Larsen, CSO visit USSPACECOM, JTF-SD

SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — From left, U.S. Space Force Gen. Chance Saltzman, Chief of Space Operations, Rep. Rick Larsen, member of Congress, (D-WA-02) and Rep. Mike Turner, Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, (R-OH-10) walk down a hallway during their visit to the Joint Task Force-Space Defense at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, March 6, 2023. During the visit, they received briefings from the JTF-SD’s National Space Defense Center and toured the Senior Master Sergeant Harold Robert Mosley II operations floor. The NSDC is a partnership organization, strongly supported by both the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, that develops and improves U.S. ability to rapidly detect, warn, characterize, attribute, and defend against threats to our nation's vital space systems. (U.S. Space Force photo by Tiana Williams)

March 12, 2023

U.K. Space Command Delegation visit JCO

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — U.K. Royal Air Force Air Commodore Adam Bone, U.K. Space Command director of operations, plans, and training, listens to a briefing at the Joint Task Force-Space Defense Commercial Operations Cell (JCO) facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Feb. 24, 2023. Bone visited various space facilities in the area to sustain the momentum of U.K.- U.S. integration to date. The JCO is an extension of the National Space Defense Center operations floor, and it leverages commercial providers to provide diverse, timely Space Domain Awareness in direct support of the NSDC’s core protect and defend mission. (U.S. Space Force photo by Dennis Rogers)

March 3, 2023

USSPACECOM Releases Specific Behaviors

PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III approved the U.S. Space Command commander’s eight proposed specific behaviors for the Department of Defense’s operations in the space area of responsibility, Feb. 9, 2023.  

March 3, 2023

Third iteration of 18 SDS ‘Operator Exchange’ welcomes UKSpOC members

VANDNEBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. – The Space Situational Awareness Partnership and Coalition Engagement (SPACE) office within the 18th Space Defense Squadron (18 SDS), hosted two members from the U.K. Space Operations Centre (UKSpOC), Feb. 13-17, 2023, to exchange knowledge on their respective space programs and units.

Feb. 22, 2023

JCO hosts NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — U.S. Space Force Brig. Gen. Dennis Bythewood, Joint Task Force-Space Defense commander, hosts French Air and Space Force Gen. Phillipe Lavigne, NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Transformation during an engagement at the JTF-SD Commercial Operations Cell facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Feb. 2, 2023. The implementation of space as an operational domain was a critical step towards ensuring the alliance's military instrument of power remains relevant in today's complex, interconnected and multi-domain environment. NATO is working towards improving its ability to coordinate with space-faring allies, maintain collective situational awareness and allow the Supreme Allied Commander Europe to leverage allies' space capabilities in a coordinated and efficient way. The JCO is an extension of the National Space Defense Center operations floor, and it leverages commercial providers to provide diverse, timely Space Domain Awareness in direct support of the NSDC’s core protect and defend mission. (Courtesy photo)

Feb. 15, 2023

USSPACEFOR-INDOPAC commander visits JTF-SD, NSDC

SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — U.S. Space Force Brig. Gen. Anthony Mastalir, commander of U.S. Space Forces Pacific, right, met with U.S. Space Force Brig. Gen. Dennis Bythewood, Joint Task Force-Space Defense commander, middle, and U.S. Space Force Chief Master Sgt. Jeramey Conley, JTF-SD senior enlisted leader, left, during a visit to the JTF-SD and the National Space Defense Center at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, Jan. 27, 2023. Mastalir attended an office call with Bythewood, participated in a capabilities and mission brief discussion, and received a new systems demonstration. The JTF-SD’s mission is to conduct unified action with mission partners, space superiority operations to deter aggression, defend capability and defeat adversaries through the continuum of conflict. (U.S. Space Force photo by Dennis Rogers)

Jan. 30, 2023

USSPACECOM Commander, CSEL host town hall for JTF-SD

SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — U.S. Army Gen. James Dickinson, U.S. Space Command commander, speaks to members of the Joint Task Force-Space Defense during a town hall at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, Jan. 17, 2023. Dickinson discussed the competitive and contested space domain and the important role that USSPACECOM and its functional component commands play in every combatant command across the globe. The JTF-SD was formed as a functional component command under U.S. Space Command Aug. 29, 2019. The JTF-SD’s mission is, in unified action with mission partners, to deter aggression, defend capabilities and defeat adversaries throughout the continuum of conflict in order to maintain space superiority in the USSPACECOM area of responsibility. (U.S. Space Force photo by Tiana Williams)