DENVER — Colorado’s top political officials reacted with frustration Wednesday to a report from the Department of Defense’s inspector general concluding that Alabama deserved to win out over Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs as home to U.S. Space Command headquarters.
The determination came in a 120-page, heavily redacted report that concluded that Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, was the “preferred permanent location to host the USSPACECOM HQ” when it was picked in the final days of the Trump administration.
The inspector general’s report said the U.S. Air Force considered a number of criteria — including workforce availability, energy resilience, cost of living and quality of schools — to make its choice. But because so much of the report was blacked out, it was difficult to ascertain details as to how or why Alabama ultimately prevailed.
