reprogramming of fiscal year 2017 funding of more than $400,000,000 to counter the North Korean missile threat. (8) In November 2017, the President submitted an amendment to his fiscal year 2018 budget request, which Congress subsequently approved, for $4,000,000,000 for missile defeat and defense, including funding to begin the construction of a new missile field at Fort Greely, Alaska, and additional procurement funding necessary for 20 new ground-based interceptors to be fully deployed by 2023. (9) The President’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2019 includes $9,900,000,000 for the Missile Defense Agency and $3,000,000,000 for air and missile defense activities in the military departments. (10) The 2018 National Defense Strategy states that in order to deliver performance at the speed of relevance … [W]e must not accept cumbersome approval chains, wasteful applications of resources in uncompetitive space, or overly risk-averse thinking that impedes change. . (b) Sense of the Senate It is the sense of the Senate that the Missile Defense Agency should— (1) accelerate the fielding, if technically feasible, of the planned additional 20 ground-based interceptors with Redesigned Kill Vehicles (RKV) at Missile Field 4 at Fort Greely, Alaska, and to mate the Redesigned Kill Vehicles with the newest booster technology