[Breaking Defense] The list of technologies of interest reads as a cut-and-paste of the Trump executive order:
- Defense of the United States against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks from peer, near-peer, and rogue adversaries;
- Acceleration of the deployment of the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor layer;
- Development and deployment of proliferated space-based interceptors capable of boost-phase intercept;
- Deployment of underlayer and terminal-phase intercept capabilities postured to defeat a countervalue attack;
- Development and deployment of a custody layer of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture;
- Development and deployment of capabilities to defeat missile attacks prior to launch and in the boost phase;
- Development and deployment of a secure supply chain for all components with next-generation security and resilience features; and
- Development and deployment of non-kinetic capabilities to augment the kinetic defeat of ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks.
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