Moves in Congress to cut $85 million in funding won't greatly delay a planned Ground-based Midcourse missile Defense (GMD) program that would be installed in Europe, Lt. Gen. Henry "Trey" Obering III, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) director, said. He hailed a successful GMD system test, where a target missile simulated a threatening long-range missile soaring out of North Korea, as helpful to the European plan. (Please see Space & Missile Defense Report, Monday, Oct. 1, 2007.) In a Pentagon…
Obering Says $85 Million Cut Won’t Severely Damage European BMD Program
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