U.S. Space Command headquarters can be fully operational before President Donald Trump leaves office, a Redstone Arsenal official said on Wednesday.

“That command can theoretically be operational very, very quickly, in under the three-year timeline easily,” Martin Traylor, deputy to the garrison commander, said during a roundtable at the Huntsville-Madison Chamber. “We’re the Army. We’re going to adjust to whatever we need to do.”

Traylor presented the timeline for Space Command’s relocation from its temporary location in Colorado Springs, saying a small “torch party” would arrive first which could be absorbed “effective today.”

“We have the space for that and all of the communications,” Traylor said. “The next would be a small advance part to come in, maybe 100 people. We also have pla

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