U.S. Space Command’s headquarters will move to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville.
That’s the word from President Donald Trump, who announced today that the headquarters will relocate from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
“We had a lot of competition for this,” the president said from the Oval Office, where he was joined by Alabama’s congressional delegation. “This will be there for hopefully hundreds of years.”
The decision reverses a Biden-area decision to keep the headquarters in Colorado, and the announcement is the end of a four-year battle over where the headquarters would land.
Trump said that, among other things, U.S. Space Command will “play a key role in building the Golden Dome,” Trump’s missile defense shield, and also insure that U.S. technological capabilities “remain unmatched.”
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey praised the decision.
“Soon after President Trump directed the Department of Defense in 2018 to begin planning for this new military branch, Space Force, we began making our own preparations in Alabama for the city of Huntsville to compete to be home for headquarters,” she said in a statement. “As I have said all along, there is no better place to locate Space Command headquarters than in Huntsville, Alabama. Today, the facts prevailed, and it is official: Space Command Headquarters is coming to Sweet Home Alabama.”
Bethany Shockney, president and CEO of the Limestone County Economic Development Association, called the move “transformative” for the Tennessee Valley region.
“The arrival of Space Command, which is set to bring thousands of new direct and indirect jobs to the Tennessee Valley, will have a tremendous economic ripple effect throughout our metro area,” she said.
