Appropriators back plan for a new homeland defense interceptor, mandate independent review

By Jason Sherman / December 17, 2019 at 1:55 PM
House and Senate lawmakers are backing plans for a new Ground-based Interceptor by adding more than $100 million for homeland defense interceptor development in fiscal year 2020. At the same time, they are qualifying support offered in September by Senate appropriators for the Next Generation Interceptor program, imposing additional oversight on the proposed new-start project. The conference version of the FY-20 defense spending bill would allocate $515 million for improved homeland defense interceptors -- up from the $412 million the...

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