The Pentagon is expected to request about $270 million for the Space Force in its 2020 budget, according to a preliminary Department of Defense memo reviewed by Space News’ Sandra Erwin.
The funds would be used for a Space Force headquarters ($64 million), the Space Development Agency ($120 million) and U.S. Space Command ($84 million). About $76 million would be transferred from existing accounts, with the rest presumably representing new requests.
Erwin says the numbers are “modest compared to multibillion-dollar estimates that have been floated in the past several months,” but could grow rapidly in the next few years as the Space Force absorbs more than $10 billion worth of programs and personnel currently housed in the Air Force, Army and Navy.
