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Scientists and engineers place two mirror segments on the NASA James Webb Space Telescope in 2014. The mirrors were built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. in Boulder.
“We kind of knew they were our biggest competitor all along,” said Boe, the founder and CEO of Colorado Springs-based aerospace company Boecore.
Boe started her company in her Colorado Springs basement 21 years ago. The business, which designs software for military space and missile defense projects, now employs 275 people in the city.
Since that time, Boe’s business has also expanded to other locations, including Huntsville. The Boecore office there opened 12 years ago, and Boe said there has been plenty of private and public sector military work going on between the two cities for decades. Boe has even advocated for the Colorado Springs Airport to add a direct flight to Huntsville.
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.”
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