
U.S. Space Command and officials at the Pentagon are examining what resilience a missile defense architecture needs to have and what DoD can afford, as officials assemble the Program Objective Memorandum (POM) for fiscal 2022 that may lay out a blueprint for Block 1 of the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) program. Air Force Gen. John Raymond, the commander of U.S. Space Command and the chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force, "had an excellent discussion with…