The Ground-Based Interceptors’ (GBI) Exo-atmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) remains the Missile Defense Agency’s top priority and will hopefully prove itself successful in a flight test later this month, MDA Director Vice Adm. James Syring told the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee Wednesday morning. MDA hopes to pour $1.3 billion of its $7.5 billion funding request for fiscal year 2015 into homeland defense, which would center on both increasing the number of GBIs in the ground to 44 by 2017 and boosting…
