Lawmakers have charged the Pentagon's top officer with overseeing a comprehensive new assessment of U.S. air and missile defense capabilities of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force and Missile Defense Agency against advanced threats such as hypersonic glide bodies and long-range, ultra-fast cruise missiles and to develop a plan to address these threats. House and Senate conferees hammering out a final version of the fiscal year 2021 defense policy bill expanded on Senate-proposed legislation mandating an Army-focused assessment on...
