Pentagon officials have decided to let the Medium Extended Air Defense System expire in 2014, opting against an outright termination but withholding a $1 billion funding boost officials believe would be needed to plug monetary shortfall in the trans-Atlantic cooperation program, according to a fact sheet released by the Defense Department. The NATO agency in charge of managing the program will move to using funds remaining -- $804 million -- as part of a 2004 memorandum between the United States,...
