This week, President Trump signed an executive order to build a state-of-the-art missile defense system, an “Iron Dome for America,” to protect the United States from missiles and next-generation air attacks.
As the congressman from North Alabama, the home of Rocket City USA, I am grateful that President Trump recognizes the need to increase America’s capability to defend against threats. His commitment to our nation’s security is an important investment that our country needs and will bring jobs and opportunity to our region.
As we know in Alabama, our state is the epicenter of cutting-edge defense and aerospace research, development, testing, and engineering. North Alabama has been in the middle of every U.S. policy and project since the 1950s when the military invested in the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Since the start of the Cold War, Redstone Arsenal and its support in Cummings Research Park have banded together to solve some of the nation’s toughest space, rocket, and missile defense challenges. It literally is rocket science, and no one in the nation does it better.
In Congress, I have long supported these efforts by championing requirements for the Department of Defense to create strategic plans for expanding homeland missile defense capabilities. As my state’s newest appropriator, I will work hand-in-hand with President Trump to upgrade both our nation’s missile defense and offensive missile capabilities to deliver a state-of-the-art system designed and built in Alabama.
Alabama supports President Trump because he wants to drive real change in Washington, and he means what he says. Along with so many of his other priorities, President Trump is the first U.S. president in decades to make missile defense of the U.S. homeland a major priority. We’re not even two weeks into his second term and he’s putting pen to paper.
Our time to act is now!
Congressman Dale W. Strong represents the Fifth Congressional District of Alabama and is a member of the House Appropriations and Homeland Security Committees.
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