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Officials Outline Cruise Missile And Guam Defense Progress, Value Of More Hypersonic Defense Funds

Wednesday, June 16th, 2021

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Officials Outline Cruise Missile And Guam Defense Progress, Value Of More Hypersonic Defense Funds

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This week Defense Department officials told a Congressional panel how it is moving forward on cruise missile defense of the homeland, plans for increasing missile defense of Guam and the value adding additional funds for hypersonic defense programs. Early in a June 15 hearing before the House Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces, ranking member Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) asked DoD officials about progress on a previous congressional directive for the department to designate a lead single authority in cruise…

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