Texas A&M University will host the U.S. Space Force’s Captain’s Leadership Course for the next decade, as announced Sept. 24. This program was introduced at A&M in 2025 and the university was recently chosen to continue hosting it. Under the new agreement, up to 420 Space Force officers could be trained in College Station each year.
What you need to know
According to a news release from Texas A&M, the university was one of the few chosen in 2025 and hosted six cohorts of future U.S. Space Force leaders for the first course of its kind. The Space Training and Readiness Command oversees the program in collaboration with faculty from Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service and the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets’ Hollingsworth Center for Ethical Leadership.
Robert Albritton, chairman of the Board of Regents of The Texas A&M University System, said the future of national security needs leaders with good character and judgment, commending the Space Force for choosing Texas A&M.
“The Space Force could have taken this mission anywhere,” Albritton said in a statement. “It chose Texas A&M, and we intend to justify that confidence.”
Texas A&M University President Susan Ballabina said the school’s values will help guide the Space Force’s mission of American defense.
“We are proud to help prepare Space Force captains for the responsibilities they will carry and to bring Texas A&M’s expertise to a mission vital to our nation’s security,” Ballabina said.
The impact
The new agreement between the university and the Space Force is set to begin in fiscal year 2026-27 and last through 2036. The release said the institutions could pursue more partnership avenues within the contracted years if they decided to do so.