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There’s no timeline for the new project, which has been on UTEP’s radar for almost a year, Wilson said. “We’re developing strategic partnerships within the commercial sector as well.” The bad news is there’s going to be a lot of competition for talent,” Thompson said.
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“The good news is there’s going to be a lot of competition for talent. The next steps in the partnership will be connecting with research institutions and centers in Texas, sending members of the Space Force to Texas to conduct mutual research, building relationships with new Space Force partners, and focusing energy on ROTC programs at UT schools, Thompson said. “If along the way we inspire others who want to work commercially, Texas is a great region for commercial space industries in the U.S. If they want to work for NASA, if they want to work elsewhere, that’s a win for the nation,” Thompson said.
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Thompson said he understands there will be competition with Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin for workers but said the competition is healthy, adding a Space Force priority is to grow the U.S. commercial space industry. The initial goals of Space Force were to educate and train new Guardians, as Space Force members are known, by developing a “deeper knowledge and understanding” of the space domain and creating partnerships with organizations with strong research and technology programs, Thompson said. It was the first time a new military service branch had been created in more than 70 years, Thompson said. The branch was established in December 2019 under the Trump administration. The Space Force is the sixth and newest branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. UTEP will also break ground in 2022 on a $70 million and 80,000- to 90,000-gross-square-foot four-story Advanced Manufacturing and Aerospace Center. Of the 66,000 degrees across the UT System’s 13 academic and health institutions in the 2019-20 academic year, 47% were awarded in STEM or health-related fields, and 42% of those undergraduate degrees were awarded to Hispanics or African Americans, said Archie Holmes Jr., UT Systems executive vice chancellor for Academic Affairs. Universities chosen for the Space Force’s Partnership Program were picked based on STEM degree offerings and space-related research labs and initiatives, “robust” ROTC programs, diverse student populations and degrees, and programming supporting higher education for the military, veterans and their families. Space Command from 1985 to 2002, but it had a far more limited scope and was not a geographic combatant command.UT leaders met with U.S. Space Force Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David Thompson at the UTEP campus Thursday to sign a comprehensive umbrella memorandum of understanding between UT campuses and the Space Force to provide advanced research and workforce development, focusing on diversity. John "Jay" Raymond, intended to serve as a precursor to U.S. Officials estimated the creation of a new service would cost $2 billion over five years, and require 15,000 personnel. The proposal also included the designation of a new position: undersecretary of the Air Force for space, a civilian position that would answer to the secretary of the Air Force and oversee U.S. The Department of Defense forwarded a Space Force proposal to Congress, on March 1, 2019, calling for a service that would fall under the Air Force in the same way the Marine Corps falls under the Department of the Navy.
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Space Command, in addition to an independent service overseen by a civilian secretary, all by 2020. Vice President Mike Pence and the Department of Defense released more details about the planned force on Aug. 9, 2018, citing plans to create a separate combatant command, U.S.