Workplace Woes?

Evidently the Missile Defense Agency isn't the greatest place to work. At least according to Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK).

In a statement released today in the wake of yesterday's failed Ground-based Midcourse Defense intercept attempt, Inhofe says that recent funding reductions to MDA has resulted in the agency's "ranking of 223 of 224 for employee satisfaction and commitment in the 2010 Best Places to Work survey of Department of Defense (DoD) agency subcomponents."

Inhofe also makes a connection between what he sees as inadequate funding for missile defense and opposing the ratification of the follow-on Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty:

At the very same time that the Senate took up floor consideration of New START, which would place restrictions on nation's missile defense program, the Missile Defense Agency announced that it failed another planned Ground Based Interceptor (GBI) intercept of a ballistic missile target during a test over the Pacific Ocean. This was the MDA's second consecutive failure of a Ground Based Interceptor test and its third test failure since the MDA came under the control of the Obama Administration. Since then, the MDA budget has been cut by $200 million, GBI missile modernization has been reduced by nearly $2 Billion from its highest spending levels and the Airborne Laser has been reduced to a test and evaluation bed. . . . The Obama Administration is placing our national security at risk by failing to fully fund, field, modernize and test a missile defense system and pushing this Senate to ratify a nuclear arms treaty with Russia that clearly places limits on future developments of U.S. missile defense.  This is just another reason to oppose the New START Treaty.