USSF's Combined Full- and Part-Time Component Would Be Called the 'Space Component' - Air Force...

Leaders of the Space Force reinforced their idea to depart from the typical military component structure of separately organized Active and reserve forces in favor of a single hybrid component structure they called the “Space Component.”

Both Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond and Chief Human Capital Officer Patricia Mulcahy referred to the theoretical new organization as the “Space Component” in separate congressional hearings April 27. A Space Force spokesperson confirmed that Space Component is the organization’s envisioned name.

The Space Component would merge full- and part-time Guardians into one component. How it might incorporate existing Air National Guard space troops remained up for debate.