WATCH LIVE: House Armed Services Committee holds hearing on Space Command basing process

Published September 28, 2023 1:55pm ET




The House Armed Services Committee is holding a hearing on the “irregularity in the strategic basing process for the U.S. Space Command.”

The House committee hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. at the Capitol, with lawmakers expected to press military officials on their decision to house Space Command in Colorado.

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Witnesses scheduled to give testimony at the hearing include Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, Gen. James Dickinson, the head of Space Command, and Space Force Chief of Space Operations Chance Saltzman to testify in front of the committee.

The hearing comes months after the chairman of the committee, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), invited the military officers to testify about the government’s decision to house Space Command’s headquarters permanently in Colorado instead of Alabama.