The article discusses former President Trump's missile defense aspirations reminiscent of Ronald Reagan's ideals, highlighting expert consensus on necessary advancements. Defense specialists note that enhancing sensor capabilities for detection, especially against evolving threats like hypersonic missiles and drones, is vital. Current systems are struggling to track increased foreign activities, with officials emphasizing the urgent need for improved information sharing and technology integration. Events like the Global Information Dominance Experiments aim to address these gaps, ensuring readiness against advanced threats.
We have a network of ground-based sensors that is very exquisite and very effective, but we need to be thinking about out-of-the-box solutions to get that coverage of hypersonic threats, to get that coverage of drone threats.
You can't defeat what you can't see, and the adversaries have an increasing capability of reaching us and threatening us from ranges beyond what some of our current systems can detect and track.
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