Raising questions over how the Missile Defense Agency plans to field a new Kinetic Energy Interceptor, House and Senate authorizers last week cut $163 million from the agency's fiscal year 2005 budget request for the program. The agency had asked for $511 million for KEI in 2005. In March 2003, MDA awarded separate $10 million contracts to teams led by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman for a conceptual design of a KEI that could be launched during a ballistic missile's...
