Breaking Defense
AUSA 2025 — As part of the US Army’s emerging Western Hemisphere Command, a three-star general said the service’s Space and Missile Defense Command has expanded its purview and is now overseeing a larger portion of the service’s contribution to homeland air and missile defense mission.
“We did grow in responsibility,” SMDC head Lt. Gen. Sean Gainey told Breaking Defense on Tuesday. “The ground-based midcourse defense mission that we traditionally held under NORTHCOM has expanded to air and missile defense holistically” to include defense against other threats, including drones.
