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The United States Space Force (USSF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the five branches of the United States Armed Forces, and one of the seven American uniformed services. Initially formed as a part of the United States Army.
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The United States Space Force (USSF) is the proposed space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces, which is intended to have control over military space operations. It would be the sixth branch of the United States Armed Forces and the eighth American uniformed service.
If established, it would be organized as a military service branch within the Department of the Air Force, one of the three military departments within the Department of Defense. The Space Force, through the Department of the Air Force, would be headed by the civilian Undersecretary of the Air Force for Space and the Secretary of the Air Force, who reports to the Secretary of Defense, and is appointed by the President with Senate confirmation. The highest-ranking military officer in the Space Force would be the Chief of Staff of the Space Force, who would exercise supervision over Space Force units and serve as one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Space Force components would be assigned, as directed by the Secretary of Defense, to the combatant commands, and neither the Secretary of the Air Force nor the Chief of Staff of the Space Force would have operational command authority over them.
Along with performing independent space operations, the Space Force would be responsible for providing space support to land, air, naval, and cyber forces.
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Once established, the U.S. Space Force is intended to become the lead military service for space operations, responsible for space doctrine, organization, training, matériel, leadership and education, personnel, facilities, and policy.
The Space Force would be organized with the missions of: Protecting the United States’ interests in space and the peaceful use of space for all responsible, consistent with all applicable law, to include international law; Ensuring the unfettered use of space for the United States’ national security and economic interests, as well of that for all U.S. allies; To deter aggression against the United States, its allies, and interests from hostile acts in and from space; To ensure that space capabilities are integrated and available to all combatant commands; To project military power in, from, and to space in support of the U.S.‘s interests; And to develop, maintain, and improve national security space professionals.2
The Space Force would develop forces for: space situational awareness; satellite operations and global, integrated, command and control of military space forces; global and theater military space operations to enable joint campaigns (to include missile warning); space support to land, air, naval, and cyber forces; spacelift and space range operations; space-based nuclear detonation detection; and prompt and sustained offensive and defensive space operations to achieve space superiority.
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