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MDA FY 2022 Budget Request Slightly Lower Than Current Year

Friday, May 28th, 2021

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MDA FY 2022 Budget Request Slightly Lower Than Current Year

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The Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) FY 2022 budget request is set at $8.9 billion, slightly under the $9.2 billion request from the current year. In budget documents, the Defense Department said the MDA is still pursuing a layered homeland defense approach with improvements over current regional systems as an underlayer to the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system as well as continuing development of the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI). The biggest ticket items the agency is requesting include $603 million in…

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