Under each field command are several smaller groups known as deltas, similar to Air Force wings. One of STARCOM's five deltas—Space Delta 10: Doctrine and Wargaming—was also tapped in 2023 to make its way to Brevard County.
Patrick was named the "sole candidate location being considered to host this mission because of its proximity to a Department of Defense modeling and simulation capability with resident space."
Space Delta 10's job will be to develop Space Force doctrine and tactics, conduct its Lessons Learned Program, and run war games.
Both Patrick and Canaveral were among the first to be converted to the Space Force. They are already home to Space Launch Delta 45, which supports all launches from Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center. SLD 45, though, falls under a different field command for the Space Force called Space Systems Command.
STARCOM for now is run out of Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado while the Space Force's overall headquarters is based in Washington at the Pentagon along with other HQs of the nation's armed forces.
The Orlando Sentinel reached out to STARCOM for details about the timeline and personnel planned for the headquarters' move to Brevard County, but has yet to hear back.
In a 2021 interview with Air & Space Forces Magazine, after being named STARCOM's commander, not Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton said he expected the headquarters to grow to about 250 personnel overseeing about 1,500 under all of its deltas.
Essentially becoming boot camp for the Space Force, Bratton told the magazine he envisioned a future with "on-orbit training where we're live-flying satellites in a training environment, where we can test and train things that we haven't done before, I think that would be a huge step forward for us."
Bratton has since moved on to other duties at the Pentagon and STARCOM's commander since July 2023 has been Maj. Gen. Timothy Sejba.
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