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House Panel Approves Missile Defense Changes

Thursday, June 22nd, 2017

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House Panel Approves Missile Defense Changes

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The leaders of a House of Representative subcommittee made several changes to missile defense authorizations in the markup of their portion of the fiscal year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Thursday today.In their proposals for the NDAA, House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and ranking member Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) agreed to require new work on space-based sensors for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the installation of air defenses at Aegis Ashore sites, transfer acquisition…

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