The Defense Department should shore up homeland defenses against one of the most vexing security challenges -- enemy cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and other low-flying aircraft, Senate authorizers say. Specifically, the Senate Armed Services Committee wants the Pentagon to establish an executive agent office that would oversee the acquisition of capabilities required to defeat a range of low-flying threats against the United States. In its recently completed report on the Pentagon's fiscal year 2006 spending request, the committee calls...
