Fischer oversees a national security portfolio that includes America’s nuclear arsenal, ballistic missile defense, national security space programs, and Department of Energy national security programs.
By the end of the year, an interim SHORAD solution should materialize in full, according to the one-star general in charge of the Army's air and missile defense modernization effort.
The $67 million investment in a new chemical weapons defense center comes just days after an ex-Russian spy and his daughter were left critically ill after being attacked with a sophisticated nerve agent in England.