Stars and Stripes:

The Missile Defense Agency is once again seeking public feedback on potential locations in Hawaii for a radar defense array in Hawaii after earlier dropping two proposed sites in the wake of public opposition.

The agency is evaluating two sites for the Homeland Defense Radar, which would identify, track and classify long-range ballistic missile threats while still in mid-course flight.

The sites being considered are the U.S. Army Kahuku Training Area on the northern tip of Oahu and the U.S. Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility on the island of Kauai. Two sites on Oahu in earlier consideration have been dropped, the agency said in a notice first published last month in the Federal Register.

The 2017 National Defense Authorization Act required the agency to develop plans to construct and operate a so-called “discrimination radar” to defend Hawaii against missile threats by quickly and narrowly identifying objects as lethal or nonlethal.

The most recent defense act passed in January provided further funding for “siting and development” of the Hawaii radar “should a deployment decision be made and is funded,” the agency said in the Federal Register…

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