Less than two months after the Missile Defense Agency's newest ballistic missile interceptor failed in a high-stakes flight test, lawmakers are handing the Pentagon $136 million in the fiscal year 2018 spending bill for a do-over. The SM-3 Block IIA program benefited from the nearly six-month delay in finalizing the FY-18 defense spending bill, giving lawmakers a chance to add $106 million in research and development funding and $30 million in procurement funding to MDA's FY-18 budget following the Jan...
