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In 2019, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command remained focused on providing space, missile defense and high altitude capabilities while also standing up a satellite operations brigade and changing the Future Warfare Center to the Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence.

The Army’s senior air and missile defense organization has roughly 2,800 Soldiers and Department of the Army civilians who perform missions at 23 different locations in 11 times zones around the world.

“This has been the most professionally rewarding job I have ever had,” said Lt. Gen. James H. Dickinson, outgoing SMDC commanding general. “This command does so many different things, in so many different areas, with so many different types of experts. From the science and technology out of the Technical Center to all of the institutional functions out of the Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence to the operations we do at the 1st Space Brigade and the new U.S. Army Satellite Operations Brigade.

“And then on top of that you add in the 100th Missile Defense Brigade with the 300 Soldiers protecting the 300 million Americans, we are probably the most unique Army Service Component Command the Army has,” Dickinson added.

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