House panel wants study to explore new place for MDA in defense bureaucracy

By Jason Sherman / June 4, 2019 at 11:28 AM
House lawmakers want to explore options for folding the Missile Defense Agency into other Defense Department organizations and removing an exemption in place for 17 years that allows development and procurement of ballistic missile defense programs outside traditional weapon system acquisition rules. The House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee in its mark of the fiscal year 2020 defense policy bill would direct a study assessing MDA's organization, currently under the office of the under secretary of defense for research and...

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