Advocating for Colorado as U.S. Space Command’s Permanent Home

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Colorado U.S. Senator Bennet and Colorado U.S. Representative Jason Crow held a virtual press call on Friday, highlighting Colorado as the nexus of national security space operations. During the call, Bennet and Crow discussed how Colorado’s leadership in space and national security innovation position it as the most strategic location to permanently base the U.S. Space Command headquarters.

Today’s call came on the heels of Bennet and Crow’s visits to multiple Colorado military bases last week.

“Our base visits reinforced that all of these missions and our intelligence missions and national security are inextricably linked,” said Bennet. “Colorado is where the nation’s work comes together -- it is the nexus of national security space operations for the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense. And it’s why, from a national security perspective, Colorado is the most strategic choice by far for the permanent home for U.S. Space Command headquarters. We have unique military and Intelligence Community space assets that we’ve already paid for, that we’ve already built, that create an ecosystem that can’t be rivaled by any other state.”

“Some of the most important assets, resources, and personnel, and installations in the world for protection of our national security reside in Colorado and we will continue to be at the forefront,” said Crow. “Putting aside politics, it is very, very clear that keeping Space Command in Colorado is what’s in the best interest of the national security of our country. The human talent, the resources, the infrastructure, all of the things that are relevant for the success of Space Command in foreign national security are actually in Colorado. The movement of Space Command to Alabama would jeopardize that.”

On Thursday, Bennet, Crow, and Colorado U.S. Representative Doug Lamborn visited Peterson Space Force Base, which included North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command, Space Operations Command, and Army Space and Missile Defense Command.

The lawmakers also met with the Army’s 1st Space Brigade at Fort Carson. On Friday, Bennet and Crow visited other space-related national security assets at Schreiver and Buckley Space Force Bases.