The Missile Defense Agency is proposing what is effectively a new, billion-dollar radar program beginning in fiscal year 2019 to shore up sensor coverage over the Pacific to protect the nation from long-range ballistic missile threats, seeking funds to begin surveying potential sites for what is called Homeland Defense Radar-Pacific. The HDR-P is one element of two new persistent discrimination radars for the Ballistic Missile Defense System; the other is the Home Defense Radar-Hawaii, which MDA -- confusingly -- previewed...
