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Tom Roeder

Military Editor

Tom Roeder is the Gazette's senior military editor. In Colorado Springs since 2003, Tom covers seven military installations in Colorado, including five in the Pikes Peak region. His main job, though, is being dad to two great kids.

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Fran Kelly, an engineer with Analytical Graphics Inc. sets up a display in a blackened tent at the 31st Space Symposium, held at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colo., Monday April 13, 2015. AGI writes software for designing, developing and operating missions within the space and national defense communities. Exhibits are displayed in the Ball Aerospace Exhibit Center in Broadmoor Hall and the adjacent Ball Aerospace Exhibit Center Pavilion. The symposium runs through Thursday. CAROL LAWRENCE/THE GAZETTE

Changes in military space put Colorado Springs at "epicenter" of revolution, leaders say

By: tom roeder tom.roeder@gazette.com • Updated: Sun, Apr 22, 2018

Radical changes in how the military views space, a new system for rapidly purchasing cutting-edge technologies and a push to mine small businesses for ideas were in the spotlight at the 34th annual Space Symposium...

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Schriever Air Force Base on Tuesday. Photo by Molly Van Wagner

Schriever adding 150 troops as Colorado Springs base expands satellite role

By: Tom Roeder tom.roeder@gazette.com • Updated: Fri, Apr 20, 2018

Schriever Air Force Base will add nearly 150 workers as Air Force Space Command assumes wider control over the military's satellites.

The new faces at Schriever are part of the new Joint Forces Space Command...

The mobile service tower is rolled back from a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in preparation to launch the National Reconnaissance Office's NROL-39 mission. The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command had four nanosatellites among the payload. (Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance via Army)

Army enlisting 'nano-satellites' to fight wars in space

By: Tom roeder tom.roeder@gazette.com • Updated: Fri, Apr 20, 2018

Breadbox-sized satellites that can be launched on a moment's notice are part of Army plans to win a war on the ground even as battles rage in space.

Because satellites are so necessary for communication,...

A crew from Velocity Constructors, Inc., in Denver work on a new ion-exchange filter system Wednesday, May 17, 2017, at the Southmoor Water Treatment Plant for the Widefield Water and Sanitation District. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)
A crew from Velocity Constructors, Inc., in Denver work on a new ion-exchange filter system Wednesday, May 17, 2017, at the Southmoor Water Treatment Plant for the Widefield Water and Sanitation District. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)

Air Force to pay nearly $1M to clean up contamination, provide drinking water

By: Tom roeder tom.roeder@gazette.comnewspaper • Updated: Thu, Apr 19, 2018

Nearly two years after toxic chemicals from Air Force firefighting foam were found in water drawn from the Widefield aquifer, the military announced a string of measures Wednesday to deliver clean drinking water to...

Commander of U.S. Strategic Command in Omaha Gen. John Hyten waits for Vice President Michael Pence to give opening remarks in the International Center at the 34th Space Symposium at the Broadmoor Hotel on Monday, April 16, 2018. (Nadav Soroker, The Gazette)
Commander of U.S. Strategic Command in Omaha Gen. John Hyten waits for Vice President Michael Pence to give opening remarks in the International Center at the 34th Space Symposium at the Broadmoor Hotel on Monday, April 16, 2018. (Nadav Soroker, The Gazette)

Air Force leaders say they're the right force for space

By: TOM ROEDER AND TONY PECK The Gazette • Updated: Wed, Apr 18, 2018

While the Air Force wouldn't take direct aim at Trump administration trial balloons about creating a new military branch for space, leaders Tuesday used the Space Symposium to show such a force isn't needed -- the...

Vice President Michael Pence walks with Sierra Nevada Corporation President Eren Ozmen during a tour of the corporations Dream Chaser spaceplane at the 34th Space Symposium at the Broadmoor Hotel on Monday, April 16, 2018.(Nadav Soroker, The Gazette)
Vice President Michael Pence walks with Sierra Nevada Corporation President Eren Ozmen during a tour of the corporations Dream Chaser spaceplane at the 34th Space Symposium at the Broadmoor Hotel on Monday. High winds disrupted festivities at the Space Symposium Tuesday after damage to a tent loaded with vendor booths. (Nadav Soroker, The Gazette)

High winds disrupt Space Symposium festivities in Colorado Springs

By: Tom Roeder, The Gazette • Updated: Tue, Apr 17, 2018

High winds disrupted festivities at the Space Symposium Tuesday after damage to a tent loaded with vendor booths.  ​The pavillion outside The Broadmoor was shaking heavily just after 9 a.m. as...
Vice President Michael Pence gives opening remarks in the International Center at the 34th Space Symposium at the Broadmoor Hotel on Monday, April 16, 2018. (Nadav Soroker, The Gazette)
Vice President Michael Pence gives opening remarks in the International Center at the 34th Space Symposium at the Broadmoor Hotel on Monday, April 16, 2018. (Nadav Soroker, The Gazette)

Trump administration aiming high in space exploration, Pence says at Space Symposium

By: TOM.ROEDER tom.roeder@gazette.com • Updated: Mon, Apr 16, 2018

Vice President Mike Pence told a Colorado Springs crowd Monday that America will reach new heights in space under the Trump administration, including a pledge for manned missions to the moon and Mars.

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Gary Talbott rolls out the red carpet at the Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser pavilion outside the 34th Space Symposium at the Broadmoor Hotel on Sunday, April 15, 2018. (Nadav Soroker, The Gazette)

Debate over separate space force in spotlight at Space Symposium

By: tom roeder tom.roeder@gazette.com • Updated: Mon, Apr 16, 2018

President Donald Trump created a buzz before this week's Space Symposium by lending his support to the idea of a separate military branch for satellite troops.

But as thousands of experts in all things in...

Air Force Col. Leigh A. Swanson, 10th Medical Group commander, Army Col. Patrick M. Garman, Evans Army Community Hospital commander, and U.S. Public Health Service Cmdr. Renee Pazdan cut the ribbon during the Colorado Springs Military Sleep Center opening Apr. 9 at Evans ACH at Fort Carson, Colorado. The six-bed sleep center will eventually expand to 10 beds and provide greatly enhanced clinical services once consolidation efforts are fully realized in June 2018. (ARMY PHOTO)

A prescription for some shut-eye: New sleep clinic opens at Fort Carson

By: tom roeder tom.roeder@gazette.com • Updated: Sun, Apr 15, 2018

A group of military leaders from the Pikes Peak region gathered at Fort Carson this week to celebrate the Pentagon's latest combat tool - sleep.

With frequent deployments to the Middle East, the military has...

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Fort Carson's newest gate opened for use Wednesday, November 14, 2012. The gate is at the south I-25 exit to Fountain at I-25 exit 128. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette

Lawmakers move to protect Carson

By: tom roeder tom.roeder@gazette.com • Updated: Fri, Apr 13, 2018

Colorado's congressional delegation and Gov. John Hickenlooper have sent a letter urging the Army to keep Fort Carson's 2nd Brigade Combat Team in town after it trades its infantry marching boots for armored...

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