The commander of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said the Pentagon is finally getting close to completing military construction on the Poland Aegis Ashore site, expecting to have it ready by 2022 after further delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "We're getting very, very close to completing the military construction out there. We've got the Aegis system on site, it's been onsite. We're taking that out right now and starting to do testing on it, get ready to do that installation," Vice Adm. Jon Hill said Tuesday during the virtual Space and Missile Defense Symposium. The Poland site was originally expected to be delivered by late 2018, but in early 2018 then- MDA Director Air Force Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves disclosed military construction issues pushed it back to 2020 due to bad seasonal weather and less than expected performance from the construction contractor (Defense Daily, April 13, 2018).
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