Lawmakers want an accounting of Defense Department plans for cross-domain, cross-service strike concepts -particularly the use of ground-based systems launched from sea-based platforms - such as the "game-changing" demonstration the Pentagon disclosed earlier this month of a Standard Missile-6 fired from a large unmanned surface vessel. The Senate Armed Services Committee, in a report accompanying its version of the fiscal year 2022 defense policy bill, directs DOD to brief Congress - no later than April 1, 2022 - on all demonstrations of ground-based systems fired from sea platforms between January 2018 and April 1, 2022. In addition, lawmakers want an update on future plans for similar experiments.
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