On December 9, 2019, Congress unveiled the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020, which includes language to authorize a U.S. Space Force as an independent military branch under the Department of the Air Force. “Space is the world's newest war-fighting domain,” President Trump said during the signing ceremony for the most recent defense bill. “Amid grave threats to our national security, American superiority in space is absolutely vital. And we're leading, but we're not leading by enough. But very shortly we'll be leading by a lot.”
We first heard about the Space Force in March 2018, when President Trump declared to an audience of Marines that “space is a war-fighting domain just like the land, air, and sea.” After the speech, President Trump directed the Defense Department to begin the process of creating the sixth branch of the U.S. Armed Forces during a meeting with the newly revived National Space Council.
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