Rigorous Technical Reviews Now a Staple of GMD Program

摘要

A rigorous and comprehensive system-verification program adopted for the U.S. territorial missile shield in the wake of back-to-back test failures has Pentagon officials feeling much better about the flight demonstrations that lay ahead. The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and its contractors are scrutinizing the interceptor rockets of the Ground Based Midcourse Defense System (GMD) more carefully than ever as they prepare for upcoming tests, said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, the program director at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala.