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Hill Talks MDA Budget Decisions, Unfunded List, And Missile Movements

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021

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Hill Talks MDA Budget Decisions, Unfunded List, And Missile Movements

An SM-3 Block IIA was launched from the USS John Finn (DDG-113) on Nov. 16, 2020, as part of FTM-44 to evaluate the feasibility of the SM-3 Block IIA capability to defeat an ICBM threat. (Photo: U.S. Missile Defense Agency)

The director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on Tuesday explained his perspective on how the agency decided its priorities in the fiscal year 2022 budget request and unfunded priorities list as well as the decision to deploy some Standard Missile (SM)-3 Block IIA missiles. Speaking at a Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) event, Vice Adm. Jon Hill said as the agency developed its budget request they started from a normal bottoms-up approach, deciding what programs need next…

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