If the Air Force Chief of Staff doesn’t support President Donald Trump’s idea of a separate Space Force, he did not reveal his feelings to the press Tuesday, instead praising his administration for putting focus on space as a “war-fighting domain,” ABC News writes.
“One of my challenges when I first came in this job two years ago was actually finding enough people interested and passionate about what I’m passionate about, which is where we move militarily but also nationally relative to space,” Gen. David Goldfein said.
In the past, the Air Force has angled to keep the space domain under its command, but Goldfein would only heap compliments on the Trump administration’s excitement about space, saying he’s glad the President “is leading that discussion.”
“I’ve got the President of the United States that’s talking openly about space as a war fighting domain. I’ve got a vice president of the United States that stood up a National Space Council and is moving that. I’ve got Congress that’s engaged and now interested in talking a lot about space. I’ve got the Secretary of Defense working space. I’ve got a Deputy Secretary. So I see this as a huge opportunity right now that we’ve been given to have a national level dialogue about where we’re going in space and so I love the fact that the president is leading that discussion,” Goldfein noted.
The Air Force head also said the President was “loud and clear” on his directive to stand up a separate Space Force, and that the Department of Defense has “begun that planning effort.”
Goldfein noted that the Department of Defense is putting its “final touches” on its report to Congress that looks at how a separate Space Force would operate, ABC News informs.
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