$7.5B MDA Budget Request Includes $100M for Kill Vehicle Redesign

摘要

The 2015 budget request for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency includes nearly $100 million to redesign the kill vehicle that tops the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) interceptor, the agency's director said March 4. The proposed Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) redesign effort is part of a total budget request of $7.5 billion for the MDA, which received $7.6 billion for the current fiscal year. U.S. Navy Vice Adm. James Syring, the head of the MDA, told reporters in a March 4 briefing that "there's been a longstanding need" to boost the EKV's reliability.