Selecting Colorado Springs as the permanent location for USSPACECOM is one in series of basing decisions that the United States military has made over many decades in the Pikes Peak Region. In establishing Camp Carson, Peterson Field, Ent Air Force Base (first home of NORAD), Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, the United States Air Force Academy, and Falcon Air Force Station (now Schriever AFB), our community has risen to each occasion with our dedication and support to the process for the mission, and the people carrying out the mission, to call Colorado Springs home.
The Pikes Peak Region has rallied and delivered time after time to make space for new missions, protect their operational needs, and to offer a huge welcome to the service members and their families that locate here. The draw to Colorado Springs resides in the quality of our people and our incredibly beautiful natural setting. Residents of the Pikes Peak Region have extraordinary opportunities for taking advantage o
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Military bases: Kirtland Air Force Base
Military population: 3,300 troops, 5,300 civilian employees and contractors
Percent of adult population with a bachelor’s degree: 34%
Pluses: Albuquerque has military space missions at Kirtland, including the rapid fielding office for satellites and part of the military’s space research arm. Albuquerque also has an outsized population of scientists thanks to the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories, which focus on nuclear energy and atomic weapons.
Minuses: While Kirtland has a space mission, it’s not a big one and the population of space experts there is relatively small. It would also require a major infrastructure investment and lacks direct connectivity to the biggest missions for the new command.
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