Senate panel pumps the brakes on MDA's 'layered' homeland defense, demands details

By Jason Sherman / June 25, 2020 at 1:42 PM
The Senate Armed Services Committee is proposing legislation that would withhold support for adopting ballistic missile defense systems originally designed for regional missions to protect the U.S. homeland in a new "layered" architecture. The Senate panel, in its mark of the FY-21 defense policy bill, would fence 50% of funding the Missile Defense Agency seeks for a new layered homeland defense architecture until lawmakers are provided a report that includes additional details on the plan. The committee agreed to its...

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