The Space Force plans to create its own cyber headquarters, and some community leaders are vying to land the unit in San Antonio.
The U.S. Space Force is planning to create its own cyber warfare headquarters, it confirmed this week, and some San Antonio leaders are vying to land the unit here. San Antonio — already known as Military City USA and Cyber City USA — may seem a natural fit for the new organization but the military’s basing process is slow and complicated by special interests and political motives. The city learned those lessons the hard way when it failed to lure Space Command two years ago.
Port San Antonio wants to build $1 billion-plus campus to house Air Forces Cyber Among those is a cyber warfighting component, said Air Force Maj. Vicky Porto, a Space Force spokesperson. “The Space Force intends to stand up service components to all the combatant commands, including CYBERCOM,” she said. “Initial mission analysis is currently underway for a Space Force Service Component to CYBERCOM, but the date for that standup has yet to be determined.
New commander named for Air Force’s cyber unit “The proximity both to the other service components as well as to the academic, research, commercial and entrepreneurial ecosystem would add value to everybody,” he said Tuesday. “So our view is we are building this for critical infrastructure protection writ large, with the military cyber obviously being a key component.
Huntsville, Ala. — not San Antonio — lands Space Command The snub stung local officials, and, according to Perschbach, they’ve learned some lessons from the experience. Those included staying “really, really focused on the goal, and as much as possible, try and avoid falling into the political and bureaucratic morass that can come in,” he said. Years of effort to bring Space Command to San Antonio ultimately lost focus, he said.
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