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GAO Finds DoD Report Offers Limited Insight Into GMD Testing Options

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Wednesday, April 30th, 2014

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GAO Finds DoD Report Offers Limited Insight Into GMD Testing Options

Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) falls under the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) umbrella. Photo: MDA.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds a Defense Department report to congressional defense committees on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system's test program offers limited insight. The April 30 report, GAO-14-350R, was to include an explanation of testing options if planned tests do not demonstrate the successful correction to a problem that caused a flight test failure in December 2010. Also, the report was to provide an assessment of the “feasibility, advisability, and cost effectiveness” of accelerating GMD's flight testing…

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