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Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110

§5532 Hypersonic Defense Capability Development

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART VI — ELEMENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND OTHER MATTERS › Subpart A — Elements › CHAPTER 551 — MISSILE DEFENSE › SUBCHAPTER III — MISSILE DEFENSE CAPABILITIES › § 5532

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director of the Missile Defense Agency must be the Defense Department’s lead to develop ways to stop hypersonic boost‑glide weapons and conventional prompt‑strike weapons aimed at the United States, its allies, or U.S. forces overseas. The Director must design a complete defense plan using military and defense‑agency systems that includes both physical (kinetic) and non‑physical (nonkinetic) interception options, and must create an official program to develop this capability by September 30, 2017.

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Title 10, §5532

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Executive Agent.—
The Director of the Missile Defense Agency shall serve as the executive agent for the Department of Defense for the development of a capability by the United States to counter hypersonic boost-glide vehicle capabilities and conventional prompt strike capabilities that may be employed against the United States, the allies of the United States, and the deployed forces of the United States.
(b)Duties.—
In carrying out subsection (a), the Director shall—
(1)develop architectures for a hypersonic defense capability, from detecting threats to intercepting such threats, that—
(A)involves systems of the military departments and the Defense Agencies; and
(B)includes both kinetic and nonkinetic options for such interception; and
(2)not later than September 30, 2017, establish a program of record to develop a hypersonic defense capability.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 5532, act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 318, set forth classes of persons prohibited from enlisting in the naval service, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 90–235, § 2(a)(3), (b), Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 756. Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title XVI, § 1687, Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2629, which was set out in a note under section 4205 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 118–159, div. A, title XVI, § 1649(b)(5), Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2199.

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10 U.S.C. § 5532

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110