Missile Defense Agency Asks Congress For $1 Billion For BMDS Testing

摘要

The Missile Defense Agency is asking Congress for $1 billion to fund its testing and targets efforts in fiscal year 2011, according to officials and documents.rn"We can't afford any more to conduct the number of flight tests that we used to, for instance, when I was a lot younger," MDA Executive Director and retired Navy Rear Adm. David Altwegg said during a Feb. 1 briefing. "At $200 million a flight test for a ground-based system, $80 million to $90 million a flight test for a Aegis or [Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system], it's just not affordable, for instance, to conduct 30 flight tests to determine a confidence level sufficient so that the director of operational test and evaluation would be comfortable.