Looks like Space Force will be synonymous with Colorado – not that it wasn’t already. Haven’t seen anything to indicate the HQ designation yet, but Peterson seems likely. The bulk of command and control and a big chunk of the physical space infrastructure and other assets are housed here at various locations around CO, not to mention some of the most significant development and manufacturing facilities in the country, making this announcement no surprise.
I started my Air Force career operating the new DSP IBM-370s here at Buckley in 1983, and fittingly ended it integrating Block-10 of that same system now known as SBIRS, 30 years later working for Lockheed in a new building at that same location. In 1983, we had three van-sized computers doing all the work. Today, “The System” (of systems) is comprised of literally thousands of computers all over the world that would all fit inside those original 3 IBM 370s. It was a long, strange trip.
