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FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — The Pentagon is continuing to delay development of a Hawaii-based missile defense radar as it considers changes to the “threat landscape” in the Pacific, despite a mandate from Congress that it be built and operating by 2028.

The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, passed late last year, included $75 million for the radar, which would be capable of identifying and classifying specific missile threats.

The NDAA calls for the director of the Missile Defense Agency to certify that its program “includes adequate amounts of estimated funding to develop, construct, test, and integrate into the missile defense system the discrimination radar for homeland defense planned to be located in Hawaii.”

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