The Defense Department in May secured a last-minute funding from Congress to immediately launch three projects to address the “emergency warfighting readiness requirement” of ensuring the Ballistic Missile Defense System can deal with hypersonic weapons, an action taken in response to a Joint Emergent Operational Need for an Advanced Threat Missile Defeat capability. The fiscal year 2017 Omnibus Appropriations Act, enacted May 23, included $28 million in defense-wide research and development funding -- resources added by Congress in response to...
