The House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee, chaired by Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL), will hold a hearing on Wednesday, June 07, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. in 2112 Rayburn House Office Building on “FY2018 Priorities and Posture of Missile Defeat Programs and Activities.”

Chairman Rogers said: “Our ballistic missile defenses have never been so self-evidently important as they are today as we watch Kim Jong Un’s unceasing ballistic missile test and development. In 2017 alone, we have seen a breakneck pace of new, successful North Korean ballistic missile development.

“Our missile defenses are key to America’s ability to defend itself, and its allies, from North Korean belligerence. But, America’s ballistic missile defense has suffered a shameful neglect from eight years of the previous Administration.

“My subcommittee did the best it could over the past five years to add resources and prioritize new ballistic missile defense development, but we did not have partners in the White House or Pentagon. That has now changed—we now have a President who made developing a ‘state-of-the-art’ missile defense a key plank in his platform to rebuild America’s defenses. Now is the time to seize the initiative, and this hearing will help us figure out how to do that in this year’s NDAA.”

WHAT: HASC Strategic Forces Subcommittee Hearing: “FY2018 Priorities and Posture of Missile Defeat Programs and Activities”

WHEN: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 at 2:00 p.m.

WHERE: 2112 Rayburn House Office Building

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