Cruise Missile Defense Plan Due in April

The top civilian leadership of the U.S. armed forces is set to complete a cruise missile defense implementation and funding plan by the end of April, as part of the Defense Department’s first-ever Strategic Planning Guidance, Inside Defense reported (see GSN, Feb. 10).

A draft version of the Strategic Planning Guidance task list, obtained by Inside the Pentagon, lists numerous Pentagon studies and their due dates, which will guide fiscal 2006 budgets for the armed services.

The service secretaries are also expected to complete a homeland defense strategy by the end of June, and are participating in coordinating a joint integrated air and missile defense plan expected by January 2005 (Keith Costa, Inside Defense, March 15).

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