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Air Force

Senate Draft Appropriations Bill Adds More Than $900 Million for Missile Warning Architecture

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, July 28th, 2022

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Senate Draft Appropriations Bill Adds More Than $900 Million for Missile Warning Architecture

A Lockheed Martin drawing of a SBIRS missile warning satellite built on the LM 2100 Combat Bus™ (Lockheed Martin)

Senate appropriators are backing the acceleration of a DoD space architecture that prioritizes low and medium Earth orbit satellites for detecting and monitoring hypersonic missiles and devising targeting solutions. In January, the Space Force's Space Warfighting Analysis Center delivered its first force design on hypersonic missile warning and tracking–a proposed mix of the LEO and MEO satellites. The Senate Appropriations Committee's draft fiscal 2023 defense bill would add $400 million to accelerate the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command LEO missile warning and…

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