MDA Chief Touts Progress Toward Revamped European Missile Shield

摘要

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is making progress on the planned European missile defense shield and is on track to meet a December 2011 decision point for initial deployment, the agency's top official said Aug. 18.rnThe MDA is working to implement a revised plan announced by U.S. President Barack Obama in September 2009 for defending European allies and deployed forces from ballistic missiles. The plan, known as the Phased Adaptive Approach, calls for deploying a network of ballistic missile sensors and shooters in four increasingly capable blocks over the next decade.