The Redesigned Kill Vehicle program was on a trajectory toward 60% cost growth -- a death knell for most weapon projects -- when the Pentagon's chief technology official directed the Missile Defense Agency to halt work on the effort, according to government auditors. MDA revealed to the Government Accountability Office that the RKV program -- a project to develop a more producible, reliable and testable kill vehicle for the fleet of Ground-based Interceptors -- had suffered cost growth of $600...
