
The House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee FY ’21 defense authorization bill mark presses the Defense Department on why it made changes to Missile Defense Agency (MDA) programs and technologies in the latest budget request. The panel pushed for action on boost-phase missile interception. It noted there are no efforts to develop a boost phase intercept capability within the MDA’s five-year Future Years Defense program and no opportunities to modify mature kinetic intercept technologies “that could prove to be cost-effective…