The Executive Order establishes a new policy of providing for the common defense of U.S. citizens and the Nation by deploying and maintaining a next-generation missile defense shield. The order recognizes that the threat from next-generation strategic weapons has become more intense and complex over the past 40 years, with peer and near-peer adversaries developing advanced delivery systems and homeland integrated air and missile defense capabilities.
The order requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a reference architecture, capabilities-based requirements, and an implementation plan for the next-generation missile defense shield within 60 days. The plan must include plans for defending against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks from peer, near-peer, and rogue adversaries, as well as accelerating the deployment of the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor layer and developing capabilities to defeat missile attacks prior to launch and in the boost phase.