House panel calls for MDA to make public missile defense flight test plans

By Jason Sherman / April 26, 2018 at 4:09 PM
House lawmakers are proposing legislation to restore transparency to the Pentagon's ballistic missile defense test plans by requiring the Missile Defense Agency to reinstate advance public disclosure of major flight tests, brushing back claims by MDA that such information should be withheld. The House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee has advanced legislation to be considered as part of the panel's fiscal year 2019 national defense authorization bill mandating MDA "publicly make available" a version of the agency's Integrated Master Test...

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