The U.S. will develop an academy to train personnel for government space jobs, along the lines of long-established institutions that do the same for the Air Force and Coast Guard.

President Trump signed an executive order Friday to establish the U.S. Space Academy, during an event at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The new institution will aim to prepare people to take on a range of positions at NASA, in military space agencies and the private sector, according to the White House.

"It's clear we will need to educate and train an entire generation of skilled servicemembers and engineers and civil operators and everything else," Trump said of the space academy, comparing it to West Point, the military educational institution in New York. He didn't say where the institution would be located.

The academy will be led by NASA and offer both technical education and leadership training. Jared Isaacman, the NASA administrator, will serve as chairman of a presidential commission set up to advise the president on creating the institution.

Isaacman has focused on the NASA workforce since being sworn into his position last December.

He has sought to convert employees working for contractors into NASA jobs, arguing it needs to rebuild its own technical capabilities. The agency created an initiative called NASA Force to bring people on for what are typically one- or two-year appointments.

Last year, NASA let some employees go and saw a significant number of people retire or take a voluntary buyout to leave the agency.

The Space Academy is the latest policy push at the White House tied to U.S. activities in orbit.

Earlier this month, Trump signed a policy memo that says U.S. spaceports must be ready by 2030 to support more than 1,000 rocket launches and spacecraft re-entries annually. In July, federal aviation regulators unveiled a proposal to roll back environmental reviews tied to many space-related activities.

The presidential commission focused on the space academy, led by NASA's administrator, will also include input from high-ranking government leaders or their representatives, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the secretary of the Air Force.

Trump signed the order Friday at an event dedicated to the astronauts who flew around the moon and back earlier this year on NASA's Artemis II mission. Each astronaut was awarded a Congressional Space Medal of Honor.