Ivey announced she was to discuss with Trump moving the U.S. Space Command’s headquarters from Colorado Springs to Huntsville before the president took the stage for his speech. ... “Before the speech, I had the opportunity to have a little time with the president, and I assured him Huntsville, Ala. is the rightful home for the U.S. Space Command headquarters,” Ivey said. ...
...west side of Huntsville just grew by close to 400 acres after a major vote during Thursday’s city council meeting. This is major as this newly annexed property will make Huntsville the 27th largest city in the nation. ... That’s what drew a no vote from District 1 City Councilwoman Michelle Watkins who said even with plans to build a new school in the Green Briar, Swancott Road area - the school system can’t absorb that. “My concern is, this is a lot of weight for a school system to carry ...
Madison Mayor Paul Finley is one of ten mayors working to adjust... “That’s a penny of sales tax that we can use for multiple things ...He believes more sales tax will contribute to bringing more money into the city.
Huntsville-based Invariant Corp. has been awarded a $200 million contract by the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command - the largest in the company’s history.
Invariant will oversee the design, development and delivery of a drone weapon - the Counter-Unmanned Aerial System Engagement System (CES).
The beginnings of the Missile and Space Intelligence Center can be traced back to the development of missiles by the U.S. Army at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, under the leadership of Dr. Wernher von Braun, Maj. Gen. John Medaris and a team of German scientists. In June 1956, the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency established the Technical Intelligence Division, a special security office with a mission to analyze and report on foreign missile-related activities.
In 1962, this division was renamed the Missile Intelligence Office. This group, initially staffed with engineers from Redstone and intelligence analysts from around the country, established its presence early when chosen by the CIA to lead the technical assessment team during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
In 1967, DIA identified MSIC as one of six national Scientific and Technical Intelligence production centers. From 1970 to 1985, the organization was known as the Missile Intelligence Agency. The name changed to the Missile and Space Intelligence Center in 1985, when MSIC moved from the Army's Research and Development Community to the Intelligence Community as part of the Army Intelligence Agency. In 1992, congressional legislation moved MSIC to DIA.
The Cold War strategy of mutually assured destruction relied heavily on ...
In 1950 von Braun’s team moved to the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Alabama, where they designed the Army’s Redstone and Jupiter ballistic missiles, as well as the Jupiter C, Juno II, and Saturn I launch vehicles. A Jupiter C orbited the first U.S satellite, Explorer I, in 1958. Von Braun also became one of the most prominent advocates for space exploration in the United States during the 1950s, writing numerous books and several articles for magazines such as Collier’s. Von Braun also served as a spokesman for three Walt Disney television programs on space travel, Man in Space.
In 1960, President Eisenhower transferred his rocket development group at Redstone Arsenal from the Army to the newly established National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Its primary objective was to develop giant Saturn rockets. Accordingly, von Braun became director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that would propel Americans to the Moon. At Marshall, the group also worked on the Mercury-Redstone, the rocket that sent the first American astronaut, Alan Shepard, on a suborbital flight on May 5, 1961. Shortly after Shepard’s successful flight, President John F. Kennedy challenged America to send a man to the Moon by the end of the decade. With the July 20, 1969 moon landing, the Apollo 11 mission fulfilled both Kennedy’s mission.
For more than six decades, NASA and the nation have relied on Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to deliver its most vital propulsion systems and hardware, flagship launch vehicles, world-class space systems, state-of-the-art engineering technologies and cutting-edge science and research projects and solutions. Explore Marshall’s contributions to America’s space program.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) said he believes President-elect Trump will move the Space Command to Alabama in his first week in office. During an interview with Mobile, Ala., radio FM Talk 106.5 that aired Monday, Rogers, who is the House Armed Services Committee chair, said he expects Trump will immediately reverse the decision made by President Biden to keep the headquarters in Colorado. “I’ve told y’all since Biden made that crooked decision, it wasn’t going to work
Huntsville is home to Redstone Arsenal, a U.S. Army base which also houses thousands of FBI employees. ... Patel also supports shutting down the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, D.C., a move which some members’ of Alabama’s congressional delegation think could benefit the state, Huntsville in particular.
“The FBI’s focus should be protecting Americans from terrorists, hostile foreign actors, and violent criminals, and Huntsville is in prime position to be an invaluable partner in achieving this shared goal,” U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, R-AL, told Huntsville’s News 19.
Huntsville is home to Redstone Arsenal, a U.S. Army base which also houses a multitude of other government agencies, including thousands of FBI employees. Lawmakers like Britt hope that Patel’s appointment might lead to an expansion of the Arsenal’s role and the transfer of more FBI personnel to Alabama. ...“We need to reorganize the FBI and make their work less politically charged and more effective,” Strong said.
Anticipated as one of President Trump’s many first executive actions, it will reverse President Joe Biden’s political, and arguably illegal decision in 2023 to headquarter Space Command in Colorado, despite numerous assessments identifying Huntsville as the superior location based on merit and operational criteria – including a 2022 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report obtained by Yellowhammer News declaring Huntsville as the No. 1 pick over No. 5 Colorado. Rogers said Monday, “I told everybody then that Colorado Springs will not be the future location of Space Command. It will be Huntsville, Alabama who won it fair and square. And President Trump said in the campaign that he was going to reverse that decision if elected. “And I knew he would because if you remember, not only did Alabama win two nationwide competitions, but President Trump’s secretary of the Air Force recommended Huntsville, President Biden’s secretary of the Air Force recommended Huntsville, and then Biden took it away for political reasons.” “And we will start construction next year in Huntsville,” Rogers said.
The city is nicknamed "The Rocket City" for its close association with U.S. space missions.[47] On January 31, 1958, ABMA placed America's first satellite, Explorer 1, into orbit using a Jupiter-C launch vehicle, a descendant of the Redstone. This brought national attention to Redstone Arsenal and Huntsville, with widespread recognition of this being a major center for high technology.[48]
