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Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act during a ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, Md, today. The $738 billion fiscal year 2020 authorization funds military and civilian pay raises, new aircraft, ship construction, tanks and armored vehicles and more.
Since Trump took office, there has been almost $2.5 trillion in defense spending.
A provision of the voluminous law created the service that will be totally focused on organizing, training and equipping Space Force, said Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett during an earlier Pentagon briefing.
“Space is the world’s newest warfighting domain,” Trump said at Andrews. “Amid grave threats to our national security, American superiority in space is absolutely vital. We’re leading, but we’re not leading by enough, and very shortly, we’ll be leading by a lot.”
Space Force will help the United States deter aggression and control the ultimate high ground, the president said.
The new service will immediately amalgamate all members of the Air Force Space Command into the new service, Barrett said. “We are moving forward with alacrity and in accordance with presidential direction, congressional legislation and DOD guidance,” she said. “Personnel assigned to the initial Space Force headquarters located within the Pentagon will now take over the Space Force planning.”