
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), which is redesigning the exo-atmospheric kill vehicle that sits atop its long-range interceptor missile, held a preliminary design review for the program in late March, an MDA spokesman said April 17.The spokesman, Christopher Johnson, declined to comment on the results of the review but said MDA is “pleased with the status of the program to date.”The Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) is intended to make the interceptor for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system more…