The House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee is advancing legislation requiring the Pentagon to shift acquisition authority for operational missile defense systems from the Missile Defense Agency to the military departments. The subcommittee's mark of the fiscal year 2018 defense authorization bill would require the defense secretary to shift the acquisition authority for such systems away from MDA by 2020. "MDA was intended to be an R&D house, and a significant part of their budget has become procurement," a committee...
