Coming DOD missile defense assessment drops focus on 'ballistic' from title

摘要

The Defense Department is dropping the "ballistic" from the Ballistic Missile Defense Review President Trump asked for last year, a change that reflects the assessment -- set to be released soon -- aims to provide a new policy, strategy and architecture blueprint accounting for a wider array of threats than one released in 2010. The formal name of the review -- commissioned as a "new Ballistic Missile Defense Review" by Trump in a Jan. 27, 2017 memo to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis -- was modified in the last couple of months, said Pentagon spokesman Tom Crosson.