§5515 Missile defense and defeat programs: major force program and budget assessment

Summary

The Secretary of Defense must set up one unified major force program to make missile defense and missile defeat a priority for the Department and national security. For each fiscal year 2019 through 2030, the Secretary must send a report about missile defense and defeat budgets with the defense budget materials to Congress. Each report must compare the current budget to the prior budget, to the most recent and previous Future-Years Defense Program sent to Congress (excluding funding for ongoing R&D upgrades), and to amounts provided the previous fiscal year. The report must show these funds as a separate budget line item, describe major changes, priorities, challenges, and risks, and may include other items the Secretary finds appropriate. Reports must be unclassified but can include a classified annex. Definitions: budget — the President’s budget for the year; defense budget materials — the Secretary’s supporting documents to Congress; missile defense and defeat programs — active and passive ballistic missile defenses, homeland cruise missile defenses, and missile defeat programs.