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Faulty Components Slip Key MDA Intercept; DoD Weighing Cuts To Pay For More THAAD, SM-3

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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

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By Marina Malenic The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will postpone a long-range intercept test scheduled for this week until December due to receipt of faulty components from a data chip- manufacturing arm of L-3 Communications [LLL], agency director Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry Obering said yesterday. The exercise, scheduled for July 18, was to have been the first operational Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) intercept test to include complex countermeasures. GMD has yet to meet testing criteria against complex countermeasures as…

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