Could this be Gary Mckinnon's "Solar Warden" program? Coming out of the black budget and into the light of day?

A proposed new military branch would send US troops to guard the galaxy
By Nancy Coleman, CNN

Pence: We will put American boots on Mars

(CNN)The year: 2019. The mission: Send combat forces into space to save the world from potential Star Wars.
The crew to get the job done: the United States Space Corps.
A Congressional committee is proposing that the US armed forces add a new military branch that would, quite literally, send soldiers out of this world.

US military prepares for the next frontier: Space war
The crew of real-life Buzz Lightyears is described in the National Defense Authorization Act, which is now headed to the full House for a vote.
There isn't usually anything extraordinary about the NDAA, which every year lays out military spending.
But this time, the House Armed Services Committee voted 60 to 1 in favor of a bill that would, among many other things, create the first new branch of the armed forces since the Air Force's founding in 1947.
Among the Space Corps' official duties, as established in the bill, would be "providing combat-ready space forces that enable the commanders of the combatant commands to fight and win wars."

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