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New CRS Report Lays Out Hypersonic Missile Defense Issues for Congress

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, August 18th, 2020

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A new Congressional Research Service report lays out some of the issues involved in building a hypersonic missile defense system. The report comes as Vice Adm. Jon Hill, the director of the Missile Defense Agency, has paused MDA's hypersonic missile defense prototype effort until later this year to split the agency's focus into near-term options and a longer term more “elegant” solution (Defense Daily, Aug. 5) "Some analysts have suggested that space-based sensor layers—integrated with tracking and targeting systems to…

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