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[i]A report that will put forth options for how to create a Space Force is expected to be out this week. It is now being reported that Vice President Mike Pence will share details of the reorganization on Thursday at the Pentagon. According to Fox News' Kristin Fisher, Pence will "specifically lay out the need for a Space Force and the next steps for its creation." ...Comments on Tuesday by Defense Secretary James Mattis were the closest to a direct endorsement of a Space Force that he has expressed thus far. "We are in complete alignment with the president's concern about protecting our assets in space that contribute to our security, to our economy," Mattis told reporters. "We need to address space as a developing warfighting domain and a combatant command is certainly one thing that we can establish," he said. "This is a process we're in." Mattis noted that Pence is closely involved in the reorganization. "The vice president is kind of the point man for the president on this," Mattis said. "We are working closely, daily, with his office and with supporters on Capitol Hill and the relevant committees." A reporter pressed Mattis to clarify whether he believes a Space Command is the same thing as establishing a separate service, as the president has ordered. "We are working our way through all this," he said. "I don't have all the final answers yet, we're still putting that together. ... We have the direction from the president and we're underway."[/i]
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