GAO: MDA balks at Army request for additional $10B to meet THAAD need

By Jason Sherman / June 1, 2018 at 2:42 PM
The Missile Defense Agency's program of record for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system is $10 billion short of what the Army says it needs to defend troops around the world, a sore point that foiled negotiations last year between MDA and the Army over transferring responsibility for THAAD to the service. The Government Accountability Office, in its latest annual audit of the Ballistic Missile Defense System released last week, reveals that negotiations last year between MDA and the...

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