Lawmakers have rolled back a Pentagon gambit to classify missile defense flight test plans by including a provision in the final version of the fiscal year 2019 defense policy bill explicitly requiring the Missile Defense Agency to annually make public a version of scheduled test events for the $180 billion Ballistic Missile Defense System. House and Senate conferees negotiating a consolidated FY-19 defense authorization bill agreed to adopt legislation proposed by the House earlier this year mandating MDA...
