Space Force hopes it gains from Hegseth’s budget shift

The Space Force’s vice chief hopes his service gets upgrades with some of the $50 billion per year that Pentagon leaders want to shift around in upcoming budgets.“We are woefully underfunded in ‘protect and defend’” systems, Gen. Michael Guetlein, the vice chief of space operations, said during the Ronald Reagan Institute’s National Security Innovation Base Summit on Wednesday.In the meantime, Guetlein said his service is also working to respond to Defens