MDA ranks new technology over East Coast interceptor site, director says

By Jason Sherman / April 16, 2018 at 5:28 PM
Iran does not present a sufficient enough threat to the United States to warrant investing billions of dollars in an East Coast missile defense site, according to the head of the Missile Defense Agency, who said he would prefer any additional funding Congress might provide be directed into the U.S. military's sensor network to improve threat detection and tracking. Lt. Gen. Sam Greaves, MDA director since last August, weighed in publicly for the first time last week on the need...

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