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Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110

§5535 Development of Requirements to Support Integrated Air and Missile Defense Capabilities

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 › § 5535

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Under the Chairman’s January 27, 2014 memo, the Vice Chairman must set warfighter requirements for persistent, survivable capabilities to detect, identify, track, and support attacks on mobile or relocatable targets throughout conflict, including striking them before use. These requirements will guide purchases funded by the Military and National Intelligence Programs and others. He must create an intelligence framework so systems work together for integrated air and missile defense.

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Title 10, §5535

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(a)In General.—
Consistent with the memorandum of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of January 27, 2014, regarding joint integrated air and missile defense, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall oversee the development of warfighter requirements for persistent and survivable capabilities to detect, identify, determine the status, track, and support engagement of strategically important mobile or relocatable assets in all phases of conflict in order to achieve the objective of preventing the effective employment of such assets, including through offensive actions against such assets prior to their use.
(b)Purpose of Requirements.—
The requirements developed pursuant to subsection (a) shall be used and updated, as appropriate, for the purpose of informing applicable acquisition programs and systems-of-systems architecture planning that are funded through the Military Intelligence Program, the National Intelligence Program, and non-intelligence programs.
(c)Supporting Activities.—
The Vice Chairman shall also oversee the development of the enabling framework for intelligence support for integrated air and missile defense, including concepts for the integrated operation of multiple systems, and, as appropriate, the development of requirements for capabilities to be acquired to achieve such integrated operations.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 5535, act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 319, required evidence of age for enlistment of minors in Regular Navy as seamen, seamen apprentices or seamen recruits, 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. 114–92, div. A, title XVI, § 1687, Nov. 25, 2015, 129 Stat. 1143, 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)(8), Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2199.

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10 U.S.C. § 5535

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110