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Shanahan officially establishes the Space Development Agency
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan on Tuesday officially established the Space Development Agency as a separate organization within the Department of Defense that will be led by Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Mike Griffin.
"A national security space architecture that provides the persistent, resilient, global, low-latency surveillance needed to deter or, if deterrence fails, defeat adversary action is a prerequisite to maintaining our long term competitive advantage," Shanahan wrote in a March 12 memo obtained by SpaceNews.
"We cannot achieve these goals and we cannot match the pace our adversaries are setting if we remain bound by legacy methods and culture. Therefore, effective immediately, I establish the Space Development Agency as a separate defense agency," the memo said, noting that the agency is being created under existing legal authorities and will be under the "direction and control of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering."
[...] It is likely that resources from other agencies or military departments will transition to the SDA in the future. The undersecretary for research and engineering will work with the Pentagon comptroller to "determine any realignment of FY19 and FY20 resources." The SDA will transfer to the U.S. Space Force once approved by Congress. The Pentagon requested $149.8 million for the new space agency in its budget for fiscal year 2020.
Previously: U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @10:59PM (3 children)
Hell Yes! Let's militarize space.
There are triilions of illegal *aliens* (and most of them brown, red, blue and purple) out there for us to keep out. Secure the (space) border! Build the wall in space!
They *say* they're fleeing tyranny and oppresion, but they really just want to take our jerbs!
Unless we act immediately, there will be Centauris, Cygnans, Glieseans and all manner of other illegals popping out babies from the chests of real 'murikkkans, collecting welfare and eating
This will be the best thing ever! What could go wrong?
'murikkka! Fuck yeah!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @11:27PM
Boeing put a secret AI in their planes that crashes it when minorities fly.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday March 14 2019, @11:34PM (1 child)
Oh My God! We need a wall...a Space Wall. Guess that's what the extra $5B the White House has thrown into the new budget proposal is for.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 15 2019, @02:58AM
Powerpoint slides. Space money doesn't go very far.