MDA, Boeing Reviewing Ground-Based Flight Test Schedule

By Thomas Duffy / October 29, 2002 at 5:00 AM
Beset by problems in developing the booster rockets to power its developing ground-based missile defense system, the Missile Defense Agency and lead contractor Boeing are studying the program's future flight test schedule and will focus the test program over the next year on developing the boosters, an MDA official told InsideDefense.com this week. "At this time there is no cut and dried schedule for when specific tests will occur," the official said. Over the past year, MDA Director Lt. Gen...

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