
The Defense Department’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) requested a $7.9 billion budget in its FY 2018 request released Tuesday, a $379 million increase over the FY 2017 request.The budget request provides $821 million for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program. The MDA will use this funding to maintain 36 Ground-Based Interceptors (GBIs) at Fort Greely, Alaska and Vandenburg Air Force Base, Calif. as well as deploy eight additional GBIs to the Alaska site. This will increase the GMD system to…