
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…