The head of the Pentagon's missile defense programs is forming an outside review board to look at why two recent tests of the Bush administration's multibillion-dollar national missile defense program had to be scrubbed because of minor problems involving ground support equipment. A December test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system was aborted when a software glitch caused the interceptor missile to shut down before it was launched. During a Feb. 14 test, a stabilizing arm that holds the interceptor...
