; (B) the Department cannot meet this goal by returning the Missile Defense Agency to the standard acquisition and requirements generation processes; and (C) the Department must instead continue to streamline and refine acquisition processes and ensure flexibility in the development, testing, and fielding of missile defenses. (4) General Greaves, the former Director of the Missile Defense Agency, stated that— (A) the Missile Defense Agency understands the importance of innovating, developing, and delivering new missile defense capabilities quickly, accelerating where possible missile defense acquisition timelines while adhering to sound acquisition principles; and (B) United States missile defenses must be responsive to existing and new threats and leverage new approaches to the homeland and regional defensive missions by delivering capabilities faster, learning from failures to make rapid adjustments, and swiftly adapting our systems once they are fielded. (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense Congress that— (1) in order for the Department of Defense to provide more lethal capabilities at the speed of relevance, the Department needs to ensure its acquisition processes continue to fulfill the needs of members of the Armed Forces now and in the future; (2) significant defense acquisition reforms enacted over the past three National Defense Authorization Acts have improved access to nontraditional and commercial innovation and to expanded flexible acquisition authorities in the development of alternative acquisition pathways to acquire critical national security capabilities; (3) the Department appropriately recognized the Missile Defense Agency for its acquisition success by presenting it with the 2018 David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award for the development of the Space-Based Kill Assessment (SKA) program and the Missile Defense Agency should be commended for its numerous and rapid acquisition successes