{"id":48437,"date":"2021-02-22T02:57:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T09:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/department-of-defense-to-investigate-space-command-headquarters-relocation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:42:45","slug":"department-of-defense-to-investigate-space-command-headquarters-relocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/department-of-defense-to-investigate-space-command-headquarters-relocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Defense to investigate Space Command headquarters relocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=779ed8a3-ab21-483f-8383-aa6a90abfdfa&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"683\" height=\"455\" alt=\"The Department of Defense will investigate whether a decision by the Trump administration to transfer the U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, was politically motivated.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Department of Defense will investigate whether a decision by the Trump administration to transfer the U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, was politically motivated.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Lisa Ferdinando\/Department of Defense<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The office says it will look into whether the decision \u201ccomplied with Department of Defense and Air Force policies\u201d and whether \u201cobjective and relevant scoring factors\u201d were used in making the decision.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration announced on Jan. 13 that the Space Command headquarters would be in Huntsville, Alabama, infuriating Republican and Democratic officials alike in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Leading politicians, including Gov. Jared Polis and all nine members of Colorado\u2019s congressional delegation, asked the Biden administration to reconsider the decision and investigate whether the Trump administration\u2019s choice was politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Space Command headquarters is temporarily located in Colorado Springs. The city was slated to host the headquarters until at least 2026, when it would receive a permanent home.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado leaders have been working to secure the headquarters for years. The command is expected to bring more than 1,400 troops and civilian workers and proponents of keeping the headquarters in Colorado say it would mesh well with the state\u2019s large aerospace industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is imperative that we thoroughly review what I believe will prove to be a fundamentally flawed process that focused on bean-counting rather than American space dominance,\u201d said U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Colorado Springs Republican.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, nonpartisan news organization dedicated to covering Colorado issues. To learn more, go to coloradosun.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Defense will investigate whether a decision by the Trump administration to transfer the U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, was politically motivated.Lisa Ferdinando\/Department of Defense The office says it will look into whether the decision \u201ccomplied with Department of Defense and Air Force policies\u201d and whether \u201cobjective and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1987,233,28,2502,265],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-armed-forces","tag-coloradosun-com","tag-headlines","tag-national-security","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87379,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48437\/revisions\/87379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48437"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}