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Griffin Says DoD Working New RKV Approach But Mum on Details

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Griffin Says DoD Working New RKV Approach But Mum on Details
Two Ground-Based Interceptors (GBI) launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. on March 25, 2019, in the first salvo test of an ICBM target. The GBIs successfully intercepted a target launched from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll. (Photo: Missile Defense Agency)

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- The Defense Department’s top research and engineering official told reporters Wednesday the department is working on a new approach for the Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) but was unwilling to provide details. Michael Griffin, the Pentagon’s under secretary of defense for research and engineering, said he did not intend to provide more information beyond the initial stop-work order press statement. “I’m not going to go beyond that, sorry. I mean we are working on what comes next absolutely,…

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