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House Panel Calls For New Space-Based Sensors To Aid Missile Defense

By Marc Selinger

Wednesday, June 21st, 2017

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House Panel Calls For New Space-Based Sensors To Aid Missile Defense

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A key congressional panel is pushing the Department of Defense to begin developing a new fleet of space-based sensors to improve the ability of warfighters to track hostile ballistic missiles.In its portion of the fiscal year 2018 defense authorization bill, unveiled June 20, the House Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces panel calls for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to work with the Air Force and other agencies on a sensor “layer” that “provides precision tracking data of missiles beginning in…

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