The U.S. Space Force was formally established on Dec. 20, 2019, when Donald Trump signed it into law with the National Defense Authorization Act. For the last five years, the Space Force has experienced the typical growing pains of any new federal agency, including defining its mission and bureaucratic infighting that has created a divide in the Force between the operational workforce and the acquisition, training, and testing community.
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The divide has become so serious that Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) sent a letter to Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman, wondering whether “the service may be too focused on its operators and not prioritizing other professionals within the service,” according to Federal News Network.
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