Ash Carter: “If confirmed, I would work to ensure that DOD selects the most effective approach to meeting its requirements.”

Iran's ballistic missile activities pose a significant threat to the Joint Force and our regional allies and partners, particularly Israel.

It absolutely is. That's why we quadrupled the European Reassurance Initiative.

China has and shares important responsibility for this development and has an important responsibility to reverse it.

"Up-or-out" isn't broken--in fact, it's an essential and highly successful system--but it's also not perfect.