
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) requests $7.459 billion in Fiscal Year 2015 to develop and deploy the systems that constitute the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). The BMDS is being developed by the agency to provide U.S. homeland defense and regional missile defense for deployed forces, allies, and friends. MDA requests a total of $37.575 billion from FY 2015 to FY 2019, the period of the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP). For Homeland Defense, in response to recent threat developments,…