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Cooper: DoD Designating Homeland Missile Defense Lead By End Of Month

Cooper: DoD Designating Homeland Missile Defense Lead By End Of Month
Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), chairman of the House Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces. (Photo: U.S. Congress)

The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s panel on strategic forces on Wednesday said the Defense Department will designate a lead for homeland cruise missile defense by the end of July. A provision in the fiscal year (FY) 2017 defense authorization act requires the Defense Department to designate an acquisition authority with responsibility for developing an architecture for protection of the U.S. homeland from cruise missile threats, which it still has not done. Last year, former Deputy Assistant Secretary…

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