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This bill, the Modernizing America's Missile Defense Act of 2019, aims to improve United States missile defense capabilities. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Expanding the national missile defense policy to address threats from ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic missiles, and requiring the Department of Defense to redesignate relevant strategies, policies, programs, and systems accordingly. 2. Accelerating the deployment of a persistent, space-based sensor architecture to enhance the effectiveness of missile defenses against ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic missile threats. 3. Maintaining the Missile Defense Agency's nonstandard acquisition authorities to rapidly design, test, and deliver critical defensive capabilities. 4. Requiring a report on the delay in the Redesigned Kill Vehicle Program for the ground-based midcourse defense system. 5. Requiring a report on options to increase the capability, capacity, and reliability of the ground-based midcourse defense element of the U.S. ballistic missile defense system. 6. Expressing a sense of Congress on recent successful Missile Defense Agency tests and on the need to prioritize the development of advanced missile defense technologies, such as hypersonic glide vehicle defense and directed energy systems.

Military Affairs and Security

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