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Officials Lay Out Missile Defense Updates/Setbacks; MDR Expected After April

Monday, March 26th, 2018

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Top U.S. Defense Department missile defense leaders provided positive updates on U.S. missile defense systems at a congressional hearing March 22, but one official was reluctant to say when the Missile Defense Review (MDR) would be released and written testimony identified an issue with Aegis Ashore.Buried near the end of his written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee, Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), revealed a military construction (MILCON) delay at the…

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