The Missile Defense Agency's five-year spending forecast includes a new first: a budget line for Israeli procurement that sets aside funding beginning in fiscal year 2019 in accordance with a new 10-year security assistance agreement between Washington and Tel Aviv that threatens to squeeze U.S. missile defense programs if MDA's planned budget topline is not increased. MDA's $7.9 billion fiscal year 2018 budget request is accompanied by a forecast that assumes no real growth between FY-19 and FY-22, with increases...
