Lawmakers press Pentagon on cuts to oversight of key missile defense programs

WASHINGTON — Two democratic lawmakers are raising concerns that the Pentagon’s weapons testing office has reduced the number of programs under its remit and will no longer provide oversight of several space and missile defense efforts that could potentially be linked to Golden Dome.

The Defense Department has cut 94 programs overseen by its office of the director of operational test and evaluation (DOT&E) — a 37 percent reduction of the 251 programs previously on the list, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and New Jersey Rep. Donald Norcross said in an Oct. 15 letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

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