; and (B) Department of Defense Directive 5134.09, as in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act. 5. Plan for the redesigned kill vehicle (a) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the ground-based midcourse defense system is the only system capable of defending the United States from long-range ballistic missile threats and is critical to our national security; (2) the redesigned kill vehicle for the ground-based interceptor is a top priority for the Missile Defense Agency and a critical element to increasing system reliability to build warfighter confidence; (3) the Missile Defense Agency must continue to leverage mature technologies from proven fielded components in a modular design to reduce the number of production processes and improve reliability, producibility, and maintainability of the redesigned kill vehicle; (4) the consensus among senior Department of Defense experts on missile defense, including General Terrance O’Shaughnessy, Commander of the United States Northern Command, and Lieutenant General Greaves, the Director the Missile Defense Agency, is that the redesigned kill vehicle will make homeland defenses much more robust and will improve our ability to defend the homeland of the United States; (5) the Redesigned Kill Vehicle Program is vital to providing the warfighter with a more reliable and effective capability to defend the homeland from long-rage ballistic missile threats