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The Pentagon’s joint program office for the missile defense of Guam is waiting on fiscal 2024 funding to be reprogrammed from elsewhere in the budget to help pay for its efforts to build an architecture to defend the key U.S. territory in the Pacific.

But that doesn’t mean a lot of work isn’t already underway to design and plan architecture critical to defending the strategic island from potential air and missile attacks from adversaries like China.

The project office, which is run by the Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office boss Lt. Gen. Robert Rasch, is operating with eight people “working really, really hard establishing the network of communications” between defense players, including the Missile Defense Agency, which has spent the last several years developing the initial architecture, Rasch said at a July 30 Center for Strategic and International Studies event in Washington.

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