Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle said the location for the future home of Space Command has already been selected on Redstone Arsenal. And the relocation process may go quicker than expected.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t tell you the actual spot,\u201d Battle said about where the facility will be located. \u201cBut they do have a spot already picked out. They have been working very closely (with federal officials). There has always been a plan B scenario. Until it was actually announced, and until they were told by the Secretary of Defense this will happen, they were moving along with plans with everybody, from the FBI, to the Army Material Command and to the Missile Defense Agency, to Marshall Space Flight Center.\u201d<\/p>\n
Approximately 60 acres of land near the center of the arsenal have been identified for the new headquarters facility, the city said in a statement.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he was reversing a decision by the Biden administration to locate Space Command headquarters in Colorado.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to give it (Space Command) to Huntsville,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n
Garrison officials have already looked at temporary space that could be used to house the command in the early move-in stage. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve been doing a lot of the homework for what\u2019s necessary to be done, so we can move along very quickly,\u201d Battle said.<\/p>\n
An earlier analysis by the Inspector General indicated <\/a>comprisesthere would likely be a phased transition to a permanent facility and that \u201cconstructing temporary operational facilities with the same capacity, connectivity and security as those already in use in Colorado Springs would take three to four years.\u201d<\/p>\n The same report noted the one-time cost for moving Space Command to Alabama was $426 million less than remaining in Colorado Springs due to lower personnel and construction costs.<\/p>\n Redstone Arsenal comprises 38,000 acres and is home to operations by NASA, Missile Defense Agency, ATF, FBI and multiple Army commands like Aviation and Missile Command and Space and Missile Defense Command.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle said the location for the future home of Space Command has already been selected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-128901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}