A Senate panel sounded alarms recently about test failures with the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, as a senior Pentagon official sought to assure it the national- missile-defense effort is on track. Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, director of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency (MDA), said at a Capitol Hill hearing he is satisfied the causes of two ground-based interceptor (GBI) test failures last year have been identified and are being addressed. A failure in January 2010 resulted from a…
MDA Director ‘Confident’ GBI Test Failures Being Addressed
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