Seeks to authorize $141.7m for the U.S.-Israeli Arrow missile defense system, which includes $76m for the Arrow System Improvement Program (ASIP) and other programs that seek to make U.S. and Israeli missile defense systems interoperable. It also seeks to authorize $9m for the Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) program, “a joint U.S.-Israeli development program to demonstrate the feasibility of defeating short-range rockets using directed energy.”
Finally, the bill sought $9m for the Space and Missile Defense Battle Lab that conducts a variety of missile tests for the Army and whose main “test bed” is Israel in order “to provide missile defense simulation capability to Israel.”
See also: similar measure S. 1438 on 9/19/01 which passed instead.
Placed on Senate calendar 9/12/01.