The Trump administration is raising a "strong" objection to legislation that would block the Missile Defense Agency from flight testing the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA against an intercontinental ballistic missile target until the Pentagon's top weapons tester certifies it works against the shorter-range threats it was originally designed to defeat. The White House Office of Management and Budget has singled out a provision of the House Armed Services Committee's mark of the fiscal year 2020 defense policy bill that would...
