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

Title 10 › Subtitle 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 Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Per the Chairman's January 27, 2014 memo, the Vice Chairman must develop warfighter requirements for lasting, survivable ways to find, identify, track, and help engage strategically important mobile or movable targets in all conflict phases so those targets cannot be used, including by striking them before use. Those requirements must guide and be updated for acquisition and systems planning funded by the Military Intelligence Program, the National Intelligence Program, and non‑intelligence programs. The Vice Chairman must also build the intelligence framework to make multiple systems work together and define the capabilities needed.

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Title 10, §5535

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(a)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)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)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

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

Apr 3, 2026

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