The site selection committee for Space Command will assess Colorado Springs this week in their mission to choose one of five finalist cities to serve as the permanent host of the combatant command, already based in the Springs.
We hope committee members get the full appreciation for the role Colorado Springs serves as the county’s best military town, bar none. Keeping Space Command in the Springs will benefit all of Colorado with more than 1,400 high-skilled, high-wage jobs and a command that will bolster the state s soaring aerospace culture and industry.
Regardless of other factors that make Colorado Springs the clear favorite, the community should walk away with the highest-ranking evaluation criteria category, called “mission-related,” which is: “available qualified workforce”; the city’s “proximity to mutually supporting space entities”; and the area’s capacity “to provide emergency incident response requirements, and enable mobility.”