Alabama U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Tuesday that “things are really looking good” with regard to an upcoming announcement on where U.S. Space Command headquarters will be located.
“I think in a short period of time it’s going to happen,” Tuberville told Greg Budell of News Talk 93.1 in Montgomery Tuesday morning.
“You know we had to get the Secretary of the Air Force (Troy E. Meink) confirmed. That happened a couple of weeks ago. We’ve got the deputy secretary that will be confirmed either this week or next week.
“We had to get the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ done to have the $150 billion put into the defense budget, because it’s going to cost a couple of billion dollars to build Space Command. Now, it’s going to be that much either here or Colorado.
“But I’m very confident that in the very near future we’re going to have a good positive announcement from the president, and hopefully he’ll do it in Alabama,” Tuberville said.
Last month, President Donald Trump seemed to indicate Huntsville would win the sweepstakes over where the agency headquarters will be located.
“Because I’m moving it to Alabama. We’re working on it,” Trump said, in a conversation captured on video with U.S. Rep. Dale Strong.
Strong represents north Alabama’s 5th Congressional District, where the headquarters would be located at Redstone Arsenal.
Strong said in May that a relocation of Space Command could mean 1,700 direct jobs and an additional 3,000 spinoff jobs in north Alabama.
