; (3) both Russia and China are rapidly enhancing their existing offensive missile systems and developing advanced sea-, ground-, and air-launched cruise missiles as well as hypersonic capabilities; (4) due to the proliferation of offensive ballistic and cruise missiles and the emergence of game-changing hypersonic weapons technologies, all of which threaten regional balances, our allies and partners, United States deployed armed forces, and the United States homeland, missile defenses become an even more critical element of United States strategy; and (5) the United States must outpace adversary offensive missile capabilities. (b) Expansion of policy Section 1681(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 ( Public Law 114–328 ; 10 U.S.C. 2431 note) is amended by striking ballistic missile threat and inserting ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic missile threats . (c) Redesignation requirement Not later than the date on which the President submits to Congress pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, the annual budget request of the President for fiscal year 2021, the Secretary of Defense shall, as the Secretary considers appropriate, redesignate all strategies, policies, programs, and systems under the jurisdiction of the Secretary to reflect that missile defense programs of the United States defend against ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic missiles in all phases of flight. 1673. Acceleration of the deployment of persistent space-based sensor architecture (a) Sense of the Senate It is the Sense of the Senate that— (1) Congress has expressed support for a space-based missile defense sensor program, in the two most recent enacted National Defense Authorization Acts; (2) the Secretary of Defense should rapidly develop and deploy a persistent, space-based sensor architecture to ensure missile defenses of the United States are more effective against ballistic missile threats and more responsive to emergent threats from hypersonic and cruise missiles