The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has completed a Navy-commissioned report on ways to defend forward-deployed ships from potential enemy missile and rocket attacks into the early 2030s, including potentially novel kinetic and non-kinetic ways to protect the fleet. The report, commissioned by Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson, was conducted by the National Academies' Naval Studies Board and led by Ronald Luman, of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and Paul Schneider, a private consultant. "The...
