Schriever Air Force Base

Schriever Air Force Base, a base of the United States Air Force, is located about ten miles east of Peterson AFB near Colorado Springs, Colorado. It is home to the 50th Space Wing, responsible for the satellites of the U.S. DoD (Department of Defense ), including the Global Positioning System.

In addition, here are the Space Innovation and Development Center of the Air Force Space Command and the Joint National Integration Center of the Missile Defense Agency, responsible for the defense against ballistic missiles ( ICBM), housed. The Schriever AFB, also based on the Air Force Space Battlelab, including responsible for the development and testing of space weapons, won by the reformulation of the National Space Policy by George W. Bush in August 2006 ( published in early October 2006) considerably in importance.

History

The former Falcon Air Force Base was renamed on 5 June 1998 in Schriever Air Force Base, in honor of retired General Bernard A. Schriever, a pioneer of the U.S. ICBM program. It was the first and so far unique case that a U.S. air base was named after a still living person.