Sept. 2 (UPI) — President Donald Trump is expected to announce Tuesday that the U.S. Space Command headquarters will releocate from Colorado to Alabama.
The move would shift the U.S. Space Command headquarters from its current spot Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Huntsville, Alabama, CBS News, Politico and CNN reported.
The U.S. Department of Defense had posted to its Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, or DVIDS, that Trump was to make a 2 p.m. EDT statement on its website that was initially titled “U.S. Space Command HQ announcement.”
The site has since replaced that with “President Trump Makes an Announcement.”
Trump’s decision to uproot the military branch’s current spot follows an April report from the Department of Defense Inspector General that “could not determine why the (former) [Secretary of the Air Force] did not make an announcement decision for the transition of [U.S. Space Command headquarters] from Colorado Springs to [the Redstone Arsenal].”
The Redstone Arsenal is a U.S. Army base adjacent to Huntsville, Alabama.
The first Trump administration had planned to move Space Command to Alabama, but after a 2022 report from the Government Accountability Office which found fault with that conclusion, then-President Joe Biden decided in 2023 to keep it in Colorado, to the chagrin of officials in Alabama.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has pushed for the move to her state even before Biden’s call to leave the base in Colorado.
“I couldn’t be more pleased to learn that Alabama will be the new home to the United States Space Command,” she posted to X in January of 2021.
However, following Biden’s decision, she posted in May of 2023 that “Alabama is the only rightful home for Space Command Headquarters, and supporting this mission is critical to the advancement of our national security.”
In April, Kay signed a resolution that urged Space Command Headquarters to be permanently established in Huntsville.
Meanwhile, Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville introduced a resolution in the Senate in January that “encourages President Donald J. Trump and his incoming second Presidential administration to halt the Biden administration’s disastrous decision and immediately proceed in establishing a permanent headquarters for United States Space Command at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.”
“Space Command coming to Huntsville?” Kay posted to X Sunday. “Count on it.”