; 10 U.S.C. 2431 note) required the Secretary of Defense to report on the efforts of the Department of Defense to develop and deploy an airborne or other boost phase defense system for missile defense by fiscal year 2025. (26) Section 1685 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 ( Public Law 114–92 ) requires the Director to commence the concept definition of a space-based ballistic missile intercept layer to the ballistic missile defense system and to draft operational concepts for how a space-based ballistic missile intercept layer would function in the context of a multi-layer missile defense architecture. (27) Section 1683 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 ( Public Law 114–92 ) and section 238 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 ( Public Law 113–66 ) requires the Director to plan the future construction of an additional missile defense site in the United States, including the possibility of a site on the East Coast of the United States that is capable of protecting the homeland. (28) The Department of Defense and the Missile Defense Agency are continuing to deploy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense, Aegis Ashore, and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense systems to more robustly defend members of the Armed Forces, allies and partners of the United States, cities and populations centers in the United States, and critical infrastructure of the United States. (29) The current United States missile defense architecture, including the ground-based midcourse defense and terminal segment defenses like the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense, Aegis Ashore, and Patriot Air and Missile Defense System, are presently capable of defending deployed Armed Forces of the United States, as well as allies and partners of the United States. (30) General Robinson, in testimony before the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate on April 6, 2017, stated As adversaries continue to pursue credible and advanced capabilities, we