(CNN) President Donald Trump will visit the Pentagon on Thursday to unveil his administration's long-awaited missile defense review, multiple officials tell CNN.

Officials said the review is expected to embrace putting advanced sensors in space in a bid to better detect enemy missiles, allowing the US military to intercept them even earlier.

A senior administration official speaking to reporters on the condition of anonymity that while that a space-based layer of satellite sensors "is something we're looking at to help give early warning tracking," the review stopped short of calling for the deployment of interceptors in space.

The official said the review calls for "further studies" of space-based counter-missile technology like interceptors or lasers and does not "direct the fielding of anything or the development of anything specific."

Trump will be accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, national security adviser John Bolton, and senior military and defense officials.

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