SMC commander teases 'significant' Space Force budget growth

摘要

The commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center said today the Space Force will request a significant plus-up in funding in its fiscal year 2022 budget proposal, reflecting the strategic importance of space investment as one of the Defense Department's top priorities. "DOD leaders are clearly sending a message that across the [future years defense program], the importance of the space enterprise is growing and needs to grow further," Lt. Gen. John Thompson said during an address at the annual Schriever Space Futures Forum. Thompson said the planned space budget growth for FY-22 and FY-23 is a continuation of the department's recognition in recent years that space is a warfighting domain that has grown increasingly congested and contested. The FY-21 request, which called for a $15.4 billion topline for the Space Force, was the new service's first independent budget proposal.