
The head of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) told Congress on Wednesday the agency plans to begin deliveries this year of nine new Ground-Based Interceptors (GBIs) including the newly tested kill vehicles.Vice Adm. James Syring, director of the MDA, said after the recent successful FTG-15 intercept flight test, the new CE-II Block 1 Exo-atmospheric kill vehicle (EKV) and Configuration 2 (C2) three-stage booster will be part of this latest GBI delivery. Syring explained this in his prepared statement to a…