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The House and Senate conference version of the fiscal year 2025 defense authorization bill includes a House provision requiring DoD establish a third missile defense interceptor site on the East Coast by 2030. The bill language directs the director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to establish a “fully operational third continental United States interceptor site on the East Coast” by December 2030. Under congressional direction, in 2019 DoD identified Fort Drum, N.Y., as its preferred finalist for a potential…
