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NORTHCOM, NORAD urge sensor modernization and warn spectrum sale could undermine missile‑defense plans
Summary
Commanders testified that layered, all‑domain sensing is essential to homeland defense, raised hypersonic and undersea detection needs, and warned that selling or repurposing spectrum used by DOD radars would jeopardize planned systems including the administration’s proposed national missile shield.
House committee members and DOD leaders discussed long‑range air and missile threats, the department's sensor modernization plans and concerns about spectrum policy.
General Greg Guillot, commander of U.S. Northern Command and NORAD, told the panel that modernizing NORAD and NORTHCOM sensors is essential and warned that proposed auctions or sales of spectrum used by military radars would jeopardize detection and tracking. "Almost all the systems that we use for homeland defense, rely on that…
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