---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 9089"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "9089"
heading: "Program Executive Officer for Assured Access to Space"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/9089"
units:
  - "Subtitle D — Air Force and Space Force"
  - "Part I — Organization"
  - "Chapter 908 — The Space Force"
---

# §9089. Program Executive Officer for Assured Access to Space

- (a) **Establishment.—**
  - (1) There is a Program Executive [Officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) for Assured Access to Space within the Space Force.
  - (2) The Program Executive [Officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) for Assured Access to Space shall serve a term of four years.
- (b) **Grade.—** The Program Executive [Officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) for Assured Access to Space, while so serving, shall have the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) of brigadier general, major general, lieutenant general, or general.
- (c) **Additional Duties.—** The Program Executive [Officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) for Assured Access to Space, while serving as the Program Executive [Officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1), shall also serve as the Commander of Space Launch Delta 45.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. A, title XVI, § 1601(b), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1173.)