110 STAT. 240 PUBLIC LAW 104-106—FEB. 10, 1996 SEC. 274. CRUISE MISSILE DEFENSE INITIATIVE. (a) IN GENERAL.— The Secretary of Defense shall undertake an initiative to coordinate and strengthen the cruise missile defense programs of the Department of Defense to ensure that the United States develops and deploys affordable and operationally effective defenses against existing and future cruise missile threats to United States military forces and operations. (b) COORDINATION WITH BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE EFFORTS.— In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary shall ensure that, to the extent practicable, the cruise missile defense programs of the Department of Defense and the ballistic missile defense programs of the Department of Defense are coordinated with each other and that those programs are mutually supporting. (c) DEFENSES AGAINST EXISTING AND NEAR-TERM CRUISE MIS- SILE THREATS. —As part of the initiative under subsection (a), the Secretary shall ensure that appropriate existing and planned air defense systems are upgraded to provide an affordable and operationally effective defense against existing and near-term cruise missile threats to United States military forces and operations. (d) DEFENSES AGAINST ADVANCED CRUISE MISSILES.— As part of the initiative under subsection (a), the Secretary shall undertake a well-coordinated development program to support the future deployment of cruise missile defense systems that are affordable and operationally effective against advanced cruise missiles, including cruise missiles with low observable features. (e) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. —Not later than the date on which the President submits the budget for fiscal year 1997 under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a detailed plan, in unclassified and classified forms, as necessary, for carrying out this section. The plan shall include an assessment of the following: (1) The systems of the Department of Defense that currently have or could have cruise missile defense capabilities and existing programs of the Department of Defense to improve these capabilities. (2) The technologies that could be deployed in the nearto mid-term to provide significant advances over existing cruise missile defense capabilities and the investments that would be required to ready those technologies for deployment. (3) The cost and operational tradeoffs, if any, between (A) upgrading existing air and missile defense systems, and (B) accelerating follow-on systems with significantly improved capabilities against advanced cruise missiles. (4) The organizational and management changes that would strengthen and further coordinate the cruise missile defense programs of the Department of Defense, including the disadvantages, if any, of implementing such changes. (f) DEFINITION. —For the purposes of this section, the term "cruise missile defense programs" means the programs, projects, and activities of the military departments, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization relating to development and deployment of defenses against cruise missiles.
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