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MDAA Alert:
The Start of the Process
June 15, 2020
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Dear Members and Friends,
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Last Friday, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) released its version [[link removed]]
of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year (FY) 2021 and sent
it to the Senate floor for a future vote.

Here are a few of the highlights:


* The bill authorizes $1.4 billion for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI) in
FY21, including $188.6 million above the budget request for Indo-Pacific requirements,
such as missile defense, enhancing forward posture, and improving interoperability
with allies and partners. The bill also authorizes a PDI topline of $5.5 billion
for FY22 and directs the Secretary of Defense to create a spending plan for these
resources.
* Requires the Secretary of the Army to submit a plan to operationally deploy or
forward station in an operational theater or theaters the two batteries of interim
cruise missile defense capability,
* Encourages DOD to allocate sufficient resources and prioritize the protection
of airbases that might be under attack from current or emerging cruise missiles
and advanced hypersonic missiles, specifically from China,
* Extends the limitation on providing sensitive missile defense information to Russia
and on the integration of U.S. missile defense systems into those of China and Russia,
* Fully funds the European Deterrence Initiative and increases funding to support
rotational forces in Europe,
* Expresses a sense of the Senate that long-term strategic competition with Russia
is a top defense priority that requires sustained investment and enhanced deterrence
due to the level of threat posed,
* Encourages the development of our hypersonic weapons, as well as defenses against
the hypersonic weapons of our competitors - an area of intense technological competition
between the United States, China, and Russia - a key element of the NDS
* Provides additional funding for missile defense priorities, including the Hypersonic
and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor, components for an eight Terminal High Altitude
Area Defense (THAAD) battery, Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii, and additional SM-3IIA
interceptors,
* Requires a joint approach and plan to protect air bases and prepositioned sites
in the contested environments outlined in the NDS,
* Assesses our integrated air and missile defense capabilities and capacity to address
existing and emerging air, missile, and other indirect fire threats to combat increasingly
sophisticated and widely used threats, especially those emerging from China and
Russia,
* Provides an additional $83 million to accelerate Ground Air Task-Oriented Radar
integration with the Cooperative Engagement Capability and Standard Missile 6,
* Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to develop an analysis on the applicability
of the Advanced Battle Management System to the broader Joint All-Domain Command
and Control efforts
* Provides leadership and alignment across the services by requiring the Joint Requirements
Oversight Council (JROC) to produce Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2)
requirements and for the Chief of Staff of the Air Force to certify that JADC2
efforts currently being led by the Air Force will meet these requirements,
* Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a classified report on the integrated
air and missile defense; counter-rocket, artillery, and mortar (C-RAM); and Counter-Unmanned
Aircraft posture in the CENTCOM area of responsibility,
* Authorizes $260 million for long lead time material for Arleigh Burke-class destroyers
* Authorizes funding for the Missile Defense Agency's cooperative programs with
Israel in line with both the budget request and the 2016 Memorandum of Understanding
In due legislation process, these Senate legislative statements are not the final
say as the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) will markup their own version of
the NDAA and have a House floor vote. After the NDAA is passed in both Chambers,
the Senate and House authorizers hold a conference committee to resolve differences
between the two versions to then get repassed in both Chambers and sent to the President
to be signed into law. Simultaneously to this authorization process, the Senate
and House appropriators follow a similar process to create defense appropriations
bills and law to provide the actual money for these authorizations.
We are a long way away, and are not limited to what is above, but we have begun
the process with core fundamental concepts highlighted above that have a reasonable
chance of making it into law.
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Respectfully,
Riki Ellison
Chairman and Founder
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
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is to make the world safer by advocating for the development and deployment of missile
defense systems to defend the United States and its allies against missile threats.
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only organization in existence whose primary mission is to recruit, organize, and
mobilize proponents to advocate for the critical need of missile defense. Visit
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