The US Space Force will operate with $28.7 billion in funding for fiscal year 2025, $800 million less than its requested budget of $29.5 billion. This is according to the full-year continuing resolution (CR) spending bill passed by Congress last week. The funding details were released by Republican lawmakers as part of “congressional intent” guidelines for the Department of Defense’s $892.5 billion allocation within the CR, which runs through September 30, 2025.

Congress avoided a government shutdown by passing the full-year CR. Unlike traditional CRs, the fiscal year 2025 resolution allows the Pentagon flexibility to reprogram up to $8 billion and start select new programs. Among the reallocations, the Space Force received authorization to transfer $30 million from the Protected Tactical Satellite (PTS) program to fund a new procurement of Resilient GPS (R-GPS) satellites. This initiative aims to supplement the existing GPS constellation with smaller, more cost-effective satellites. The PTS program’s funding was reduced from $597 million to $420 million.

The Space Force is also involved in broader budget realignment efforts for fiscal year 2026. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed an 8% internal reallocation of the DoD budget. Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman confirmed on March 20 that the Space Force submitted its proposed funding reallocations to the Pentagon. “I don’t want to get ahead of the secretary, but I think the fairest way to characterize it is we looked at what our lowest priorities were, and we offered those up so that the secretary could reprioritize based on the priorities that this new administration has,” Saltzman said during a Defense One webcast interview. Hegseth has emphasized warfighting activities as the Pentagon’s top priority, a directive that Saltzman said aligns with the Space Force’s mission. “I think in the end, what you’ll see is that because our priorities were so focused on warfighting, so focused on the new emerging threats that everybody is coming to the realization that we have to address, that we were pretty well aligned with the new administration’s priorities,” Saltzman added. “And so I think the Space Force is going to be in a good spot.”

These budget shifts occur amid broader Pentagon spending reviews. Hegseth announced the termination of $580 million in programs deemed wasteful.