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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 435 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To improve the missile defense capabilities of the United States, and for |
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| 6 | 6 | | other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY5, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. S |
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| 10 | 10 | | ULLIVAN(for himself and Mr. CRAMER) introduced the following bill; |
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| 11 | 11 | | which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To improve the missile defense capabilities of the United |
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| 14 | 14 | | States, and for other purposes. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Increasing Response 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Options and Deterrence of Missile Engagements Act of 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | 2025’’ or the ‘‘IRONDOME Act of 2025’’. 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF THE SENATE. 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (a) F |
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| 23 | 23 | | INDINGS.— 8 |
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| 27 | 27 | | (1) MISSILE DEFENSE REVIEW .—Congress 1 |
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| 28 | 28 | | finds that the 2022 Missile Defense Review found 2 |
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| 29 | 29 | | the following: 3 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (A) Since the release of the 2019 Missile 4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Defense Review, missile-related threats have 5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | rapidly expanded in quantity, diversity, and so-6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | phistication. 7 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (B) United States national security inter-8 |
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| 35 | 35 | | ests are increasingly at risk from wide-ranging 9 |
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| 36 | 36 | | missile arsenals that include offensive ballistic, 10 |
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| 37 | 37 | | cruise, and hypersonic weapons. 11 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (C) In support of the homeland missile de-12 |
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| 39 | 39 | | fense mission, continued modernization and ex-13 |
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| 40 | 40 | | pansion of the Ground-based Midcourse De-14 |
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| 41 | 41 | | fense (GMD) system will remain an essential 15 |
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| 42 | 42 | | element of our comprehensive missile defeat ap-16 |
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| 43 | 43 | | proach. In addition, the United States will also 17 |
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| 44 | 44 | | continue to improve defensive capabilities to ad-18 |
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| 45 | 45 | | dress the threat of evolving cruise missile 19 |
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| 46 | 46 | | strikes by any adversary against the homeland. 20 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (D) The continued evolution and progress 21 |
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| 48 | 48 | | of missiles as a principal means by which adver-22 |
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| 49 | 49 | | saries seek to project conventional or nuclear 23 |
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| 50 | 50 | | military power makes missile defense a core de-24 |
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| 54 | 54 | | terrence-by-denial component of an integrated 1 |
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| 55 | 55 | | deterrence strategy. 2 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (E) Missile defense capabilities add resil-3 |
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| 57 | 57 | | ience and undermine adversary confidence in 4 |
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| 58 | 58 | | missile use by introducing doubt and uncer-5 |
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| 59 | 59 | | tainty into strike planning and execution, re-6 |
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| 60 | 60 | | ducing the incentive to conduct small-scale coer-7 |
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| 61 | 61 | | cive attacks, decreasing the probability of at-8 |
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| 62 | 62 | | tack success, and raising the threshold of con-9 |
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| 63 | 63 | | flict. 10 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (2) C |
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| 65 | 65 | | ONGRESSIONAL COMMISSION ON THE 11 |
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| 66 | 66 | | STRATEGIC POSTURE OF THE UNITED STATES .— 12 |
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| 67 | 67 | | Congress finds that, in its October 2023 report, the 13 |
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| 68 | 68 | | Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture 14 |
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| 69 | 69 | | of the United States recommended the following: 15 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (A) The United States should develop and 16 |
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| 71 | 71 | | field homeland integrated air and missile de-17 |
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| 72 | 72 | | fense (IAMD) that can deter and defeat coer-18 |
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| 73 | 73 | | cive attacks by Russia and China, and deter-19 |
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| 74 | 74 | | mine the capabilities needed to stay ahead of 20 |
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| 75 | 75 | | the North Korean threat. 21 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (B) The Secretary of Defense should direct 22 |
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| 77 | 77 | | research, development, test and evaluation into 23 |
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| 78 | 78 | | advanced integrated air and missile defense ca-24 |
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| 79 | 79 | | pabilities leveraging all domains, including land, 25 |
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| 83 | 83 | | sea, air, and space. These activities should 1 |
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| 84 | 84 | | focus on sensor architectures, integrated com-2 |
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| 85 | 85 | | mand and control, interceptors, cruise and 3 |
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| 86 | 86 | | hypersonic missile defenses, and area or point 4 |
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| 87 | 87 | | defenses. The Department of Defense should 5 |
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| 88 | 88 | | urgently pursue deployment of any capabilities 6 |
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| 89 | 89 | | that prove feasible. 7 |
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| 90 | 90 | | (C) The Secretary and the military depart-8 |
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| 91 | 91 | | ments should transfer operations and 9 |
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| 92 | 92 | | sustainment responsibility for missile defense to 10 |
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| 93 | 93 | | the appropriate military departments by Octo-11 |
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| 94 | 94 | | ber 1, 2024, to allow the Missile Defense Agen-12 |
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| 95 | 95 | | cy (MDA) to focus on research, development, 13 |
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| 96 | 96 | | prototyping, and testing. 14 |
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| 97 | 97 | | (3) C |
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| 98 | 98 | | OMMISSION ON THE NATIONAL DEFENSE 15 |
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| 99 | 99 | | STRATEGY.—Congress finds the following: 16 |
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| 100 | 100 | | (A) In its July 2024 report, the Commis-17 |
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| 101 | 101 | | sion on the National Defense Strategy found 18 |
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| 102 | 102 | | the following: 19 |
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| 103 | 103 | | (i) There is an increasing threat from 20 |
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| 104 | 104 | | expanding ability of China, Russia, and 21 |
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| 105 | 105 | | North Korea to deliver nuclear weapons 22 |
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| 106 | 106 | | against the United States, including the 23 |
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| 107 | 107 | | territories of the United States. 24 |
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| 111 | 111 | | (ii) The military planners of the De-1 |
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| 112 | 112 | | partment of Defense and United States 2 |
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| 113 | 113 | | Northern Command need to prepare for a 3 |
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| 114 | 114 | | worst-case scenario in which nuclear and 4 |
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| 115 | 115 | | other strikes are launched against the 5 |
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| 116 | 116 | | United States, which could be done in 6 |
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| 117 | 117 | | large numbers with specialized delivery 7 |
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| 118 | 118 | | systems. 8 |
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| 119 | 119 | | (B) In the report described in subpara-9 |
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| 120 | 120 | | graph (A), the Commission shared the same 10 |
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| 121 | 121 | | threat assessment about missile attacks as the 11 |
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| 122 | 122 | | Commission on the Strategic Posture of the 12 |
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| 123 | 123 | | United States and agreed with the rec-13 |
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| 124 | 124 | | ommendation that the United States should en-14 |
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| 125 | 125 | | hance missile defense for the homeland. 15 |
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| 126 | 126 | | (4) P |
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| 127 | 127 | | OLICY.—Congress finds that it is the pol-16 |
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| 128 | 128 | | icy of the Federal Government that— 17 |
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| 129 | 129 | | (A) the Federal Government will provide 18 |
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| 130 | 130 | | for the common defense of the citizens of the 19 |
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| 131 | 131 | | United States and the United States by deploy-20 |
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| 132 | 132 | | ing and maintaining a next-generation missile 21 |
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| 133 | 133 | | defense shield; 22 |
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| 134 | 134 | | (B) the Federal Government will deter and 23 |
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| 135 | 135 | | defend the citizens and critical infrastructure of 24 |
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| 139 | 139 | | the United States against any foreign attack on 1 |
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| 140 | 140 | | the United States homeland; and 2 |
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| 141 | 141 | | (C) the Federal Government will guarantee 3 |
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| 142 | 142 | | the secure second-strike capability of the Fed-4 |
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| 143 | 143 | | eral Government. 5 |
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| 144 | 144 | | (b) S |
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| 145 | 145 | | ENSE OF THESENATE.—It is the sense of the 6 |
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| 146 | 146 | | Senate that— 7 |
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| 147 | 147 | | (1) the threat of attack by ballistic, cruise, and 8 |
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| 148 | 148 | | hypersonic missiles remains a catastrophic threat 9 |
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| 149 | 149 | | facing the United States and defense against it is a 10 |
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| 150 | 150 | | form of both national security and border security; 11 |
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| 151 | 151 | | (2) China is rapidly expanding and modernizing 12 |
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| 152 | 152 | | its conventional forces to include ballistic missile sys-13 |
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| 153 | 153 | | tems posing an increasing threat to citizens, forces, 14 |
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| 154 | 154 | | and allies of the United States; 15 |
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| 155 | 155 | | (3) over the past 40 years, rather than less-16 |
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| 156 | 156 | | ening, the threat from next-generation strategic 17 |
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| 157 | 157 | | weapons, including hypersonic, has become more 18 |
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| 158 | 158 | | complex with the development of next-generation de-19 |
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| 159 | 159 | | livery systems by adversaries of the United States; 20 |
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| 160 | 160 | | (4) notwithstanding this increasing threat, 21 |
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| 161 | 161 | | homeland missile defense policy of the United States 22 |
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| 162 | 162 | | has been severely limited to staying ahead of rogue 23 |
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| 163 | 163 | | nation threats and accidental or unauthorized mis-24 |
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| 164 | 164 | | sile launches; 25 |
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| 168 | 168 | | (5) by empowering the United States with a 1 |
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| 169 | 169 | | second-strike capability, the Iron Dome will deter 2 |
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| 170 | 170 | | adversaries from attacks on the homeland; 3 |
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| 171 | 171 | | (6) the midcourse defense system is the primary 4 |
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| 172 | 172 | | system capable of defending the United States 5 |
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| 173 | 173 | | homeland from long-range ballistic missile threats 6 |
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| 174 | 174 | | and is critical to our national security; 7 |
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| 175 | 175 | | (7) the Next Generation Interceptor is a top 8 |
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| 176 | 176 | | priority for the Missile Defense Agency and a critical 9 |
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| 177 | 177 | | element to increasing system reliability to build 10 |
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| 178 | 178 | | warfighter competence; and 11 |
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| 179 | 179 | | (8) the United States must gain and maintain 12 |
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| 180 | 180 | | total domain awareness to provide early warning and 13 |
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| 181 | 181 | | defeat of missile threats from both the northern and 14 |
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| 182 | 182 | | southern hemispheres and from outer space. 15 |
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| 183 | 183 | | SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 16 |
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| 184 | 184 | | In this Act: 17 |
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| 185 | 185 | | (1) C |
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| 186 | 186 | | ONGRESSIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEES .— 18 |
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| 187 | 187 | | The term ‘‘congressional defense committees’’ has 19 |
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| 188 | 188 | | the meaning given such term in section 101(a) of 20 |
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| 189 | 189 | | title 10, United States Code. 21 |
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| 190 | 190 | | (2) S |
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| 191 | 191 | | ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 22 |
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| 192 | 192 | | the Secretary of Defense. 23 |
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| 196 | 196 | | SEC. 4. IMPROVING UNITED STATES MISSILE DEFENSE CA-1 |
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| 197 | 197 | | PABILITIES. 2 |
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| 198 | 198 | | (a) P |
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| 199 | 199 | | LAN FORTRANSFER OF OPERATIONS AND 3 |
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| 200 | 200 | | S |
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| 201 | 201 | | USTAINMENT OF MISSILEDEFENSE TO THE MILITARY 4 |
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| 202 | 202 | | D |
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| 203 | 203 | | EPARTMENTS.— 5 |
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| 204 | 204 | | (1) P |
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| 205 | 205 | | LAN REQUIRED.—Not later than 120 days 6 |
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| 206 | 206 | | after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-7 |
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| 207 | 207 | | retary shall submit to Congress a multi-year phased 8 |
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| 208 | 208 | | plan to transfer operations and sustainment respon-9 |
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| 209 | 209 | | sibility for missile defense from the Missile Defense 10 |
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| 210 | 210 | | Agency to the appropriate military departments to 11 |
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| 211 | 211 | | allow the Missile Defense Agency to focus on re-12 |
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| 212 | 212 | | search, development, and prototyping and testing. 13 |
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| 213 | 213 | | (2) E |
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| 214 | 214 | | XECUTION OF PLAN.—The Secretary shall 14 |
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| 215 | 215 | | execute the plan submitted pursuant to paragraph 15 |
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| 216 | 216 | | (1) pursuant to a specific authorization of such plan 16 |
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| 217 | 217 | | enacted after the date of the enactment of this Act. 17 |
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| 218 | 218 | | (b) M |
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| 219 | 219 | | IDDLE-TIERACQUISITIONPROGRAM FOR 18 |
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| 220 | 220 | | D |
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| 221 | 221 | | RONE-BASEDMISSILETHREATAUDIODETECTIONSYS-19 |
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| 222 | 222 | | TEM.—The Commander of United States Northern Com-20 |
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| 223 | 223 | | mand shall use a process for conducting a middle tier ac-21 |
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| 224 | 224 | | quisition described in section 3602 of title 10, United 22 |
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| 225 | 225 | | States Code, as added by section 804 of the Servicemem-23 |
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| 226 | 226 | | ber Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense 24 |
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| 227 | 227 | | Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (Public Law 118– 25 |
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| 228 | 228 | | 159), for rapid fielding and prototyping of a drone-based 26 |
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| 232 | 232 | | network for both forward deployed armed forces and 1 |
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| 233 | 233 | | homeland defense capable of detecting through audio sens-2 |
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| 234 | 234 | | ing technology the approach of advanced missiles, includ-3 |
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| 235 | 235 | | ing advanced cruise missiles and hypersonic missiles. 4 |
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| 236 | 236 | | (c) M |
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| 237 | 237 | | IDDLE-TIERACQUISITIONPROGRAM FORPRO-5 |
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| 238 | 238 | | LIFERATEDWARFIGHTERSPACEARCHITECTURE OF 6 |
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| 239 | 239 | | S |
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| 240 | 240 | | PACEDEVELOPMENT AGENCY.—The Director of the 7 |
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| 241 | 241 | | Space Development Agency shall use a process for con-8 |
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| 242 | 242 | | ducting a middle tier acquisition described in section 3602 9 |
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| 243 | 243 | | of title 10, United States Code, as added by section 804 10 |
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| 244 | 244 | | of the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and 11 |
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| 245 | 245 | | National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 12 |
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| 246 | 246 | | (Public Law 118–159), for rapid fielding of satellites and 13 |
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| 247 | 247 | | associated systems for tranches 3, 4, and 5 of the pro-14 |
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| 248 | 248 | | liferated warfighter space architecture of the Agency. 15 |
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| 249 | 249 | | (d) R |
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| 250 | 250 | | EQUIREMENT FOR NEXTGENERATIONINTER-16 |
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| 251 | 251 | | CEPTORFIELDING ANDSILOCONSTRUCTION.—The Sec-17 |
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| 252 | 252 | | retary shall take such actions as may be necessary to ex-18 |
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| 253 | 253 | | pand Next Generation Interceptor production and silo con-19 |
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| 254 | 254 | | struction at Fort Greely, Alaska, to field a minimum of 20 |
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| 255 | 255 | | 80 interceptors at Fort Greely for defense of the United 21 |
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| 256 | 256 | | States to be completed not later than January 1, 2038. 22 |
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| 257 | 257 | | (e) R |
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| 258 | 258 | | EQUIREMENT FOR COMBATANTCOMMANDSTO 23 |
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| 259 | 259 | | A |
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| 260 | 260 | | CCOUNT FOR MISSILEDEFENSEINTERCEPTORS AND 24 |
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| 261 | 261 | | S |
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| 262 | 262 | | ENSORREQUIREMENTS IN THEIRANNUALRE-25 |
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| 266 | 266 | | QUESTS.—For each fiscal year beginning after the date 1 |
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| 267 | 267 | | of the enactment of this Act, each commander of a com-2 |
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| 268 | 268 | | batant command shall include the missile defense inter-3 |
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| 269 | 269 | | ceptor requirements, terrestrial-based sensor require-4 |
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| 270 | 270 | | ments, and space-based sensor requirements of the com-5 |
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| 271 | 271 | | batant command of the commander in the supporting in-6 |
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| 272 | 272 | | formation for the Department of Defense submitted along 7 |
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| 273 | 273 | | with the budget of the President to Congress for such fis-8 |
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| 274 | 274 | | cal year pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, United 9 |
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| 275 | 275 | | States Code. 10 |
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| 276 | 276 | | (f) A |
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| 277 | 277 | | CCELERATINGDEVELOPMENT OF GLIDEPHASE 11 |
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| 278 | 278 | | I |
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| 279 | 279 | | NTERCEPTOR.— 12 |
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| 280 | 280 | | (1) U |
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| 281 | 281 | | SE OF AUTHORITIES TO ACCELERATE DE -13 |
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| 282 | 282 | | VELOPMENT.—The Secretary shall use all authori-14 |
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| 283 | 283 | | ties available to the Secretary to accelerate develop-15 |
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| 284 | 284 | | ment of the Glide Phase Interceptor to defend 16 |
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| 285 | 285 | | against hypersonic threats to the United States 17 |
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| 286 | 286 | | homeland. 18 |
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| 287 | 287 | | (2) R |
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| 288 | 288 | | EPORT ON POTENTIAL FOR PARALLEL DE -19 |
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| 289 | 289 | | VELOPMENT.—Not later than one year after the 20 |
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| 290 | 290 | | date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of 21 |
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| 291 | 291 | | the Missile Defense Agency shall submit to the Sec-22 |
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| 292 | 292 | | retary a report on the potential for parallel develop-23 |
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| 293 | 293 | | ment of capabilities, revised program schedule, and 24 |
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| 298 | 298 | | native for the Glide Phase Interceptor. 2 |
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| 299 | 299 | | (g) A |
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| 300 | 300 | | CCELERATINGPRODUCTION AND FIELDING OF 3 |
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| 302 | 302 | | ERMINALHIGHALTITUDEAREADEFENSESYSTEM.— 4 |
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| 303 | 303 | | The Secretary shall use all authorities available to the Sec-5 |
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| 304 | 304 | | retary to accelerate the production and fielding of the Ter-6 |
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| 305 | 305 | | minal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system (in-7 |
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| 306 | 306 | | cluding AN/TPY–2 radars) for forward deployment and 8 |
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| 307 | 307 | | homeland defense as the Secretary and President consider 9 |
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| 308 | 308 | | appropriate. 10 |
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| 309 | 309 | | (h) A |
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| 310 | 310 | | CCELERATINGDEVELOPMENT OF AUTONOMOUS 11 |
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| 311 | 311 | | A |
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| 312 | 312 | | GENTSTODEFENDAGAINSTCRUISEMISSILES AND 12 |
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| 313 | 313 | | D |
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| 314 | 314 | | RONES.—The Secretary shall use all authorities avail-13 |
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| 315 | 315 | | able to the Secretary to accelerate development of autono-14 |
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| 316 | 316 | | mous agents to cost-effectively defend the United States 15 |
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| 317 | 317 | | homeland and forward-deployed armed forces against 16 |
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| 318 | 318 | | raids of both large cruise missiles and drones. 17 |
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| 319 | 319 | | (i) A |
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| 320 | 320 | | CCELERATING DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOY-18 |
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| 321 | 321 | | MENT OFSPACE-BASEDINTERCEPTORS.—The Secretary 19 |
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| 322 | 322 | | shall use all authorities available to the Secretary to accel-20 |
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| 323 | 323 | | erate development and deployment of proliferated space- 21 |
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| 324 | 324 | | based interceptors capable of boost-phase intercept. 22 |
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| 325 | 325 | | (j) R |
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| 326 | 326 | | EPORTTOREDUCECOSTSAVINGSPERROUND 23 |
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| 327 | 327 | | FORSPACE-BASEDINTERCEPTORS.—Not later than 180 24 |
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| 328 | 328 | | days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-25 |
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| 332 | 332 | | retary of Defense shall submit a feasibility study to the 1 |
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| 333 | 333 | | congressional defense committees outlining multiple meth-2 |
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| 334 | 334 | | ods for reducing the cost per round of various space-based 3 |
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| 335 | 335 | | interceptors including kinetic and non-kinetic capabilities. 4 |
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| 336 | 336 | | (k) A |
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| 337 | 337 | | CCELERATINGMODERNIZATION OF CERTAIN 5 |
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| 339 | 339 | | ERRESTRIALDOMAINCAPABILITIES.—The Secretary 6 |
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| 340 | 340 | | shall use all authorities available to the Secretary to accel-7 |
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| 341 | 341 | | erate modernization of terrestrial-based radar capabilities, 8 |
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| 342 | 342 | | including those located at or known as Cobra Dane, Thule 9 |
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| 343 | 343 | | Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), Up-10 |
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| 344 | 344 | | graded Early Warning Radar (UEWR) in Greenland and 11 |
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| 345 | 345 | | Cape Cod, Homeland Defense Radar in Hawaii, and the 12 |
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| 346 | 346 | | Alaska Radar System. 13 |
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| 347 | 347 | | (l) M |
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| 350 | 350 | | ADARATTACKCHARACTERIZATION SYSTEM.—The Sec-15 |
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| 351 | 351 | | retary shall use all authorities available to the Secretary 16 |
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| 352 | 352 | | to accelerate the modernization and digitization of the Pe-17 |
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| 353 | 353 | | rimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization Sys-18 |
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| 354 | 354 | | tem (PARCS) to improve detection of intercontinental and 19 |
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| 355 | 355 | | sea-launched missile threats, as well as improve space do-20 |
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| 356 | 356 | | main awareness capabilities. 21 |
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| 357 | 357 | | (m) S |
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| 358 | 358 | | ITESELECTION AND PROGRAMEXECUTION 22 |
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| 360 | 360 | | LAN FOR SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE-FACINGEARLY 23 |
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| 361 | 361 | | W |
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| 362 | 362 | | ARNINGRADARSYSTEM.—Not later than 180 days 24 |
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| 363 | 363 | | after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 25 |
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| 367 | 367 | | shall submit to Congress a report detailing a site selection 1 |
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| 368 | 368 | | and proposed program execution plan for a southern hemi-2 |
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| 369 | 369 | | sphere-facing early warning radar system capable of de-3 |
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| 370 | 370 | | tecting threats from next generation complex missile at-4 |
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| 371 | 371 | | tacks. 5 |
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| 372 | 372 | | (n) S |
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| 375 | 375 | | LAN FORCONSTRUCTION OFEASTCOAST-BASEDAEGIS 7 |
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| 377 | 377 | | SHORESYSTEM.—Not later than 180 days after the date 8 |
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| 378 | 378 | | of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 9 |
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| 379 | 379 | | to Congress a report detailing a site selection and pro-10 |
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| 380 | 380 | | posed program execution plan for an east coast-based 11 |
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| 381 | 381 | | Aegis Ashore missile defense system. 12 |
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| 382 | 382 | | (o) S |
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| 383 | 383 | | ITESELECTION AND PROGRAMEXECUTION 13 |
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| 384 | 384 | | P |
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| 385 | 385 | | LAN FORCONSTRUCTION OF ALASKA-BASEDAEGIS 14 |
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| 386 | 386 | | A |
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| 387 | 387 | | SHORESYSTEM.—Not later than 180 days after the date 15 |
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| 388 | 388 | | of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 16 |
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| 389 | 389 | | to Congress a report detailing a site selection and pro-17 |
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| 390 | 390 | | posed program execution plan for an Alaska-based Aegis 18 |
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| 391 | 391 | | Ashore missile defense system. 19 |
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| 392 | 392 | | (p) C |
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| 393 | 393 | | OMPLETION AND CERTIFICATION OF AEGIS 20 |
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| 394 | 394 | | A |
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| 395 | 395 | | SHORESYSTEM INHAWAII.—The Secretary shall use all 21 |
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| 396 | 396 | | authorities available to the Secretary to accelerate comple-22 |
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| 397 | 397 | | tion and certification of an Aegis Ashore system based in 23 |
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| 398 | 398 | | Hawaii. 24 |
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| 402 | 402 | | (q) ACCELERATION OFMUNITIONSPRODUCTION FOR 1 |
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| 404 | 404 | | ISSILEDEFENSE.—The Secretary shall use all authori-2 |
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| 405 | 405 | | ties available to the Secretary to accelerate production of 3 |
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| 406 | 406 | | critical munitions used for missile interception, including 4 |
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| 407 | 407 | | Standard Missile 3 Blocks IB and IIA and PAC–2 and 5 |
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| 408 | 408 | | PAC–3 munitions. 6 |
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| 409 | 409 | | (r) E |
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| 412 | 412 | | (1) W |
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| 413 | 413 | | AIVER OF REGULATIONS .—The Secretary 9 |
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| 414 | 414 | | may waive any and all regulations, including envi-10 |
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| 415 | 415 | | ronmental regulations, that the Secretary determines 11 |
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| 416 | 416 | | would slow down, impede, block, or otherwise hinder 12 |
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| 417 | 417 | | the construction, upgrade, or modernization of infra-13 |
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| 418 | 418 | | structure supporting a Joint Urgent Operational 14 |
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| 419 | 419 | | Need (JUON) associated with homeland or forward 15 |
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| 420 | 420 | | deployed missile defense. 16 |
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| 421 | 421 | | (2) C |
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| 422 | 422 | | ONGRESSIONAL NOTICE .—Whenever the 17 |
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| 423 | 423 | | Secretary uses the authority provided by paragraph 18 |
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| 424 | 424 | | (1), the Secretary shall, not later than 45 days after 19 |
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| 425 | 425 | | using the authority, submit to the congressional de-20 |
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| 426 | 426 | | fense committees notice of such use. 21 |
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| 427 | 427 | | (s) A |
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| 428 | 428 | | CCELERATION OF INTEGRATEDAIR ANDMIS-22 |
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| 429 | 429 | | SILEDEFENSETECHNOLOGYEXCHANGES.— 23 |
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| 430 | 430 | | (1) I |
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| 431 | 431 | | N GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, in col-24 |
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| 432 | 432 | | laboration with the Secretary of State, look for and 25 |
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| 436 | 436 | | exploit opportunities to accelerate technology ex-1 |
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| 437 | 437 | | changes and transfers of integrated missile defense 2 |
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| 438 | 438 | | technology, including over the horizon radar with 3 |
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| 439 | 439 | | trusted allies under current defense agreements and 4 |
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| 440 | 440 | | arrangements. 5 |
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| 441 | 441 | | (2) R |
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| 442 | 442 | | ULE OF CONSTRUCTION .—Nothing in this 6 |
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| 443 | 443 | | subsection shall be construed to require the Sec-7 |
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| 444 | 444 | | retary to exchange technology with a foreign country 8 |
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| 445 | 445 | | if the President or the Secretary determines that 9 |
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| 446 | 446 | | doing so would present a grave national security 10 |
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| 447 | 447 | | threat to the United States. 11 |
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| 448 | 448 | | (t) D |
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| 449 | 449 | | EVELOPMENT AND SECURING OF SUPPLY 12 |
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| 450 | 450 | | C |
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| 451 | 451 | | HAINSCRITICAL TOMISSILEDEFENSE.—The Secretary 13 |
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| 452 | 452 | | shall, in collaboration with the Secretary of State, the Sec-14 |
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| 453 | 453 | | retary of Commerce, and the Secretary of the Interior, 15 |
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| 454 | 454 | | identify critical shortages and vulnerabilities in supply 16 |
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| 455 | 455 | | chains critical to missile defense component production 17 |
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| 456 | 456 | | and shall use all authorities available to the Secretaries 18 |
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| 457 | 457 | | to develop and secure such supply chains. 19 |
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| 458 | 458 | | (u) R |
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| 459 | 459 | | EQUIREMENT FOR PROCUREMENT AND FIELD-20 |
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| 460 | 460 | | ING OFDIRIGIBLESTOSUPPORTMISSILEDEFENSE.— 21 |
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| 461 | 461 | | (1) I |
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| 462 | 462 | | N GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Army 22 |
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| 463 | 463 | | shall procure and field dirigibles, including airships 23 |
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| 464 | 464 | | and aerostats, in support of the missile defense of 24 |
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| 469 | 469 | | hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and drones. 2 |
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| 470 | 470 | | (2) R |
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| 471 | 471 | | EQUIREMENTS.—The requirements of 3 |
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| 472 | 472 | | paragraph (1) cover— 4 |
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| 473 | 473 | | (A) high altitude air defense systems to de-5 |
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| 474 | 474 | | tect, characterize, track, and engage current 6 |
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| 475 | 475 | | and emerging advanced missile threats; and 7 |
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| 476 | 476 | | (B) both short-term and long-term solu-8 |
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| 477 | 477 | | tions that leverage the innovative dirigible and 9 |
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| 478 | 478 | | associated sensor development that the Armed 10 |
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| 479 | 479 | | Forces, partners of the United States, such as 11 |
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| 480 | 480 | | Israel, and United States industry have under-12 |
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| 481 | 481 | | taken during the 30-year period ending on the 13 |
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| 482 | 482 | | date of the enactment of this Act. 14 |
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| 483 | 483 | | (3) C |
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| 484 | 484 | | ONSIDERATION.—In carrying out para-15 |
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| 485 | 485 | | graph (1), the Secretary of the Army shall consider 16 |
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| 486 | 486 | | the use of dirigibles in supporting resilient military 17 |
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| 487 | 487 | | and emergency communication networks in a crisis. 18 |
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| 488 | 488 | | SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 19 |
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| 489 | 489 | | There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out 20 |
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| 490 | 490 | | this Act $19,548,100,000 for fiscal year 2026, of which— 21 |
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| 491 | 491 | | (1) $500,000,000 shall be available for require-22 |
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| 492 | 492 | | ments of this Act relating to SM–3 Block 1B; 23 |
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| 493 | 493 | | (2) $500,000,000 shall be available for require-24 |
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| 494 | 494 | | ments of this Act relating to SM–3 Block IIA; 25 |
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| 498 | 498 | | (3) $1,400,000,000 shall be available for re-1 |
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| 499 | 499 | | quirements of this Act relating to Terminal High Al-2 |
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| 500 | 500 | | titude Area Defense (THAAD) Systems; 3 |
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| 501 | 501 | | (4) $1,500,000,000 shall be available for re-4 |
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| 502 | 502 | | quirements of this Act relating to PAC–2 and PAC– 5 |
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| 503 | 503 | | 3 Munitions and MM–104 Patriot batteries; 6 |
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| 504 | 504 | | (5) $1,000,000,000 shall be available for re-7 |
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| 505 | 505 | | quirements of this Act relating to east coast and 8 |
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| 506 | 506 | | Alaska-based Aegis Ashore station construction; 9 |
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| 507 | 507 | | (6) $12,000,000,000 shall be available for ex-10 |
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| 508 | 508 | | pansion of missile interceptor fields available at Fort 11 |
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| 509 | 509 | | Greely, Alaska, to 80 units with the Next Generation 12 |
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| 510 | 510 | | Interceptor; 13 |
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| 511 | 511 | | (7) $250,000,000 shall be available for require-14 |
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| 512 | 512 | | ments of this Act relating to completion and certifi-15 |
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| 513 | 513 | | cation of Hawaii Aegis Ashore system; 16 |
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| 514 | 514 | | (8) $60,000,000 shall be available for require-17 |
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| 515 | 515 | | ments of this Act relating to Space Development 18 |
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| 516 | 516 | | Agency satellite sensors; 19 |
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| 517 | 517 | | (9) $750,000,000 shall be available for require-20 |
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| 518 | 518 | | ments of this Act relating to modernization of ter-21 |
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| 519 | 519 | | restrial-based domain awareness radars; 22 |
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| 520 | 520 | | (10) $500,000,000 shall be available for re-23 |
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| 521 | 521 | | quirements of this Act relating to research and de-24 |
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| 525 | 525 | | velopment relating to directed energy or missile 1 |
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| 526 | 526 | | interception across the military departments; 2 |
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| 527 | 527 | | (11) $900,000,000 shall be available for re-3 |
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| 528 | 528 | | quirements of this Act relating to research and de-4 |
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| 529 | 529 | | velopment of space based missile defense; 5 |
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| 530 | 530 | | (12) $63,100,000 shall be available for require-6 |
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| 531 | 531 | | ments of this Act relating to Missile Defense Com-7 |
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| 532 | 532 | | plex (MDC) and Fire Team Readiness Facility 8 |
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| 533 | 533 | | (FTRF); 9 |
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| 534 | 534 | | (13) $100,000,000 shall be available for re-10 |
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| 535 | 535 | | quirements of this Act relating to procurement and 11 |
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| 536 | 536 | | fielding of dirigibles; and 12 |
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| 537 | 537 | | (14) $25,000,000 shall be available for Missile 13 |
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| 538 | 538 | | Defense Agency military construction to continue 14 |
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| 539 | 539 | | planning and design activities for an east coast mis-15 |
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| 540 | 540 | | sile defense interceptor site. 16 |
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