Sen. Deb Fischer, chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, said this week that the Pentagon needs certain electromagnetic bands for building an effective missile defense system.
“President Trump’s proposed Golden Dome is simply impossible if the [Defense Department] loses access to certain spectrum bands,” Ms. Fischer, Nebraska Republican, told a conference hosted by The Washington Times.
Air Force Gen. Gregory Guillot, commander of the U.S. Northern Command, testified in March on the need for the Pentagon to keep control over certain bands, she said.
“For if the department were forced to vacate these spectrum bands, we would not be able to operate radars and sensors essential to missile defense,” Ms. Fischer said.
“A missile defense system cannot hit what it cannot see. And neither can we simply replicate these capabilities in other bands of spectrum.”
