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Missile Defense

Senate NDAA Pushes 64 NGIs, An Increase Over 20 Planned

Monday, July 25th, 2022

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Senate NDAA Pushes 64 NGIs, An Increase Over 20 Planned

A long-range Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. In a flight test of a three-stage booster rocket operating in a two-stage mode in 2021. (Photo: Missile Defense Agency)

The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) fiscal year 2023 defense policy bill includes a provision that would require the Defense Department to plan for acquiring at least 64 Next Generation Interceptors (NGIs), an increase over the 20 missile defense interceptors already planned. The NGI is the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) new booster rocket and kill vehicle program for homeland missile defense that replaces the canceled Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV). It is slated to start with 20 interceptors placed in silos…

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