The House Armed Services Committee's strategic forces subcommittee has directed the Defense Department to evaluate whether deploying artificial intelligence processing capabilities on low-earth-orbit satellites could dramatically reduce decision-making timelines in missile defense operations. In directed report language included in the panel's draft mark of the fiscal year 2027 defense policy bill released May 26, the subcommittee identified a vulnerability in current missile defense architectures: routing time-sensitive missile tracking data through ground stations for processing introduces latency that could compromise...