Alabama officials say they are ready to move forward with bringing U.S. Space Command headquarters to Huntsville after President Donald Trump’s recent promise that he’s “working on it.”

“Alabama is the rightful home of Space Command Headquarters,” Gov. Kay Ivey posted on social media Wednesday. “And we’re ready for this to be made official.”

Ivey shared remarks she made in this year’s State of the State address: “You say we are not innovative, and we will rightfully earn Space Command headquarters.”

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville joined in the conversation, telling Greg Budell of News Talk 93.1 in Montgomery that “things are really looking good” on Tuesday.

“We had to get the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ done to have the $150 billion put into the defense budget, because it’s going to cost a couple of billion dollars to build Space Command,” he said.

“But I’m very confident that in the very near future we’re going to have a good positive announcement from the president, and hopefully he’ll do it in Alabama,” Tuberville continued.

Alabama representatives have been increasingly confident that Trump would move Space Command headquarters after his election but have grown even more sure after a comment from the president at the White House picnic last month.

“I’m moving it to Alabama. We’re working on it,” Trump told U.S. Rep. Dale Strong in a video posted to X.

Strong represents north Alabama’s 5th Congressional District, where the headquarters would be located at Redstone Arsenal.

He said in May that a relocation of Space Command could mean 1,700 direct jobs and an additional 3,000 spinoff jobs in north Alabama.

“So, this is not about just Redstone Arsenal,” Strong said previously.

“This is about north Alabama. It shows what our region does. It shows what our region has already done for this country, and what we’re going to do. That’s why I’m bullish on the future of north Alabama.”

Trump supported the Air Force’s decision to move the headquarters from Colorado Springs, its interim location, to Redstone Arsenal near the end of his first term in 2021.

But President Joe Biden in 2023 reversed that decision, deciding to retain the headquarters at Colorado.