§5515 Missile Defense and Defeat Programs: Major Force Program and Budget Assessment

Summary

The Secretary of Defense must create one unified major force program to set priorities for missile defense and missile defeat work under section 222(b). The Secretary must also send a report about missile defense and defeat budgets with the defense budget materials each year from fiscal year 2019 through 2030. Each report must give a clear budget overview that compares the current budget to the prior budget, the most recent and prior future-years defense plan, and last year’s appropriations, and must show the funding as a specific budget line item. The report must also assess major changes, priorities, problems, and risks, and may include any other items the Secretary thinks are needed. Reports should be unclassified, but can have a classified annex. Definitions: “budget” means the President’s budget sent to Congress; “defense budget materials” are the Secretary’s supporting documents; “missile defense and defeat programs” means active and passive ballistic missile defense, homeland cruise missile defense, and missile defeat programs.