U.S. Space Command HQ: Colorado => Alabama?

[The Bread Guy]

This from the Associated Press ...

Trump will announce Space Command is moving from Colorado to Alabama

President Donald Trump’s administration will announce on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado, according to two people familiar with the announcement.

www.cp24.com

A bit of digging led me to this from from the GAO from this past May (highlights mine) ...

... From May 2022 through June 2023, the Air Force employed an evolving three-phased process to reevaluate its preferred location for U.S. Space Command headquarters in response to GAO and DOD Office of Inspector General report recommendations and requests from senior DOD officials. During its reevaluation, the Air Force reviewed basing requirements, selection criteria, and senior officials’ advice; analyzed costs; and evaluated implications of the Command’s declaration of full operational capability, among other things. At the culmination of this process in June 2023, the Air Force revalidated Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama as its preferred headquarters location. However, the then Secretary of the Air Force did not announce a final decision, and in July 2023, DOD announced the then President had selected Colorado Springs, Colorado as the permanent location for U.S. Space Command headquarters ...

Still, although the political stink will be more zero, but it at least appears that this is what the Air Force would prefer.

There were early rumblings this past spring, too.

Review of decision not to award Space Command to Alabama inconclusive, with Trump reversal expected

With the Trump administration expected to reverse a controversial 2023 decision on the permanent location of U.S.

apnews.com

More on Redstone Arsenal here:

Redstone Arsenal - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Redstone Arsenal | Base Overview & Info | MilitaryINSTALLATIONS

Find key information & resources for Redstone Arsenal in Alabama including contacts, important messages, directions, cost of living, and more.

installations.militaryonesource.mil

 

[KTown Cowboy]

 

[Blackadder1916]

In addition to the GAO report, the other analysis of the decision/non-decision (?) of should it stay or should it go (to borrow from The Clash) was done by the DoD Inspector General.

Evaluation of DoD Roles and Processes Leading up to the July 2023 Basing Decision for the U.S. Space Command

https://media.defense.gov/2025/Apr/24/2003696742/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2025-084_FINAL.PDF

And while the DODIG report was unable to determine the then-President's full reasoning behind the decision to keep it in Colorado Springs, this does provide some reading between the lines.

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(U) The USSPACECOM Commander expressed concerns
to the Secretary of Defense and the SECAF about risks
to USSPACECOM’s readiness. Based on these concerns,
the USSPACECOM Commander advised the SECAF and the
Secretary of Defense that the USSPACECOM headquarters
should permanently remain in Colorado Springs.

(U) While awaiting a decision from the SECAF about the
final headquarters location, construction at Redstone Arsenal
could not begin, and USSPACECOM continued to approach
full operational capability at its provisional headquarters
in Colorado Springs. Citing the need to maintain “peak
readiness in the space domain,” the DoD announced in
July 2023 that the President decided the USSPACECOM
headquarters would remain permanently in Colorado Springs.
On December 15, 2023, the USSPACECOM Commander declared
that USSPACECOM achieved full operational capability.

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I did see somewhere in one, or both, reports that a move to Redstone Arsenal would have delayed Space Command reaching full operational capability by three to four years.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Now official via the socials:

 

[The Bread Guy]

And why?

Trump links Space Command HQ move to Colorado’s ‘crooked’ voting laws

Twice Tuesday, Trump said Colorado’s mail-in voting policies influenced his decision to move SPACECOM headquarters from Colorado Springs to Huntsville.

www.defensenews.com