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John Plumb, assistant secretary of defense for space policy, said there are four imperatives that have been driving his team at the Department of Defense when it comes to integrated air and missile defense, or IAMD, and the first two are balanced offense-defense approaches and rapid innovation in future technologies.
Plumb said that when it comes to rapid innovation, DOD should invest in novel areas such as hypersonic defense, directed energy and space-based missile warning and tracking.
