Space Command wants to move nearly 200 people to new Alabama HQ this year

House Command goals to maneuver about 200 folks from Colorado to its new headquarters in Alabama by yr’s finish. 

“I am pleased on the progress that we’re making, and that progress will proceed over the subsequent couple of years as we work to get a good portion of our workers there, even whereas the everlasting headquarters is being constructed,” Gen. Stephen Whiting, who leads U.S. House Command, advised senators throughout a Senate Armed Providers Committee listening to Thursday. 

The command’s transfer has been a matter of sizzling political debate. In his first time period President Donald Trump pushed to maneuver the command to a 60-acre web site in Huntsville, Alabama. The Biden administration in 2023 reversed the unique determination to maneuver the headquarters to Alabama, however Trump reversed it once more in 2025.

Proper now, House Command has a small, 20-person workplace in Redstone Arsenal, with plans to extend that quantity tenfold by yr’s finish. 

“By the tip of this yr, we’re concentrating on that quantity to be nearer to 200 those that will probably be working from Redstone, from our headquarters, in fact. That will probably be paced with the supply of interim services which can be acceptable to the safety classification stage we’d like, and that we’ve got all the acceptable IT networks,” Whiting testified. 

The command is updating present services, with plans to open a top-secret facility that may accommodate as much as 80 folks in April, Whiting stated. Then the plan is to begin shifting individuals who work at that classification stage. 

To hit that 200-person goal, the command is providing staff incentives.

“We’re providing relocation incentives for our workforce in Colorado to contemplate shifting to Alabama,” Whiting stated. “We are also providing retention incentives, as a result of I would like my workforce to stick with me in Colorado till their operate is able to transfer.”