Coming DOD missile defense assessment drops focus on 'ballistic' from title

By Jason Sherman / February 8, 2018 at 1:11 PM
The Defense Department is dropping the "ballistic" from the Ballistic Missile Defense Review President Trump asked for last year, a change that reflects the assessment -- set to be released soon -- aims to provide a new policy, strategy and architecture blueprint accounting for a wider array of threats than one released in 2010. The formal name of the review -- commissioned as a "new Ballistic Missile Defense Review" by Trump in a Jan. 27, 2017 memo to Defense Secretary...

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