Pentagon launches BMDR; guidance classified but includes NDAA-directed review

By Jason Sherman / May 9, 2017 at 12:39 PM
The Defense Department has launched a sweeping review of ballistic missile defense policy, strategy and architecture -- an assessment that aims to produce a missile defense blueprint to supersede what the Obama administration produced in 2010 -- as threats to U.S. forces from ballistic missiles and other difficult-to-defeat capabilities such as hypersonic weapons proliferate. On May 4, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis directed the start of a Ballistic Missile Defense Review, an action President Trump called for in a Jan. 27...

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