{"id":8216,"date":"2026-03-28T07:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/space-command-wants-move-nearly-200-people-to-new-alabama-hq-this-year\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T07:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:28:17","slug":"space-command-wants-move-nearly-200-people-to-new-alabama-hq-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/space-command-wants-move-nearly-200-people-to-new-alabama-hq-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Command wants move nearly 200 people to new Alabama HQ this year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Space Command aims to move about\u00a0200 people from Colorado to its new headquarters in Alabama by year’s end.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m happy at the progress that we’re making, and that progress will continue over the next couple of years as we work to get a significant portion of our staff there, even while the permanent headquarters is being built,\u201d Gen. Stephen Whiting, who leads U.S. Space Command, told senators during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The command\u2019s move\u00a0has been a matter of hot political debate.\u00a0In his first term President Donald Trump pushed\u00a0to move the command to a 60-acre site in Huntsville, Alabama. The Biden administration in 2023 reversed the original decision to move the headquarters to Alabama, but Trump reversed\u00a0it again in 2025.<\/p>\n

Right now, Space Command has a small, 20-person office in Redstone Arsenal, with plans to increase that number tenfold by year’s end.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the end of this year, we are targeting that number to be closer to 200 people that will be working from Redstone, from our headquarters, of course. That will be paced with the delivery of interim facilities that are appropriate to the security classification level we need, and that we have all of the appropriate IT networks,\u201d Whiting testified.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The command is updating existing facilities, with plans to open a top-secret facility that can accommodate up to 80 people in April, Whiting said. Then the plan is to start moving people who work at that classification level.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To hit that 200-person target, the command is offering workers incentives.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are offering relocation incentives for our workforce in Colorado to consider moving to Alabama,\u201d Whiting said. \u201cWe also are offering retention incentives, because I need my workforce to stay with me in Colorado until their function is ready to move.\u201d\u00a0\n\n<\/svg><\/p>\n<\/div>\n