{"id":171911,"date":"2023-09-13T12:24:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/space-force-to-create-integrated-units-responsible-for-acquisition-maintenance-and-operations"},"modified":"2023-09-13T12:24:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:24:53","slug":"space-force-to-create-integrated-units-responsible-for-acquisition-maintenance-and-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/space-force-to-create-integrated-units-responsible-for-acquisition-maintenance-and-operations","title":{"rendered":"Space Force to create \u201cintegrated\u201d units responsible for acquisition, maintenance and operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-force-to-create-integrated-units-responsible-for-acquisition-maintenance-and-operations2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. \u2014 U.S. chief space operations Gen. Chance Saltzman on Sept. 12 announced the Space Force will experiment with a new command structure where a unit is responsible for all aspects of a mission area, including training, procurement and operations.<\/p>\n<p>Two integrated units will be established, each run by a Space Force colonel \u2014 one for space electronic warfare; and the other for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) satellites.<\/p>\n<p>This is a departure from the current structure where responsibilities for procurement, maintenance, sustainment and operations are fragmented under separate chains of command, Saltzman said in a keynote speech at the Air &amp; Space Forces Association\u2019s annual conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. \u2014 U.S. chief space operations Gen. Chance Saltzman on Sept. 12 announced the Space Force will experiment with a new command structure where a unit is responsible for all aspects of a mission area, including training, procurement and operations. Two integrated units will be established, each run by a Space Force colonel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}