Hyten: DOD must move to integrate Army, Navy into Space Force

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The Defense Department owes lawmakers a report next year on how to integrate Navy and Army space capabilities into the new Space Force, but the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says the department needs to move faster. "We only have about a year to figure it out - maybe a bit less because Congress is going to make a decision next year about how the Army and Navy will be treated, and we need to try to be ahead of that," Gen. John Hyten said during an event today at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Congress authorized the creation of the Space Force as a separate service in the Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act. The first tranche of new servicemembers will come from the Air Force, but lawmakers expect to begin shifting assets from other services in the coming years.