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Special Missile Defense Conference Issue: Tauscher Says European Missile Defense To Wait Until After Ground-based Midcourse Defense Tests

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Monday, March 23rd, 2009

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Levin, Tauscher, Warn Of Cuts Coming In Total Missile Defense Authorizations Tauscher Flails Airborne Laser As Behind Schedule And $4 Billion Over Budget; But She Praises Aegis, THAAD Programs Any move to deploy the European Missile Defense (EMD) system is dead for years, because it will have to wait until after extensive testing is performed on its parent program, the Ground-based Missile Defense (GMD) system. That was the message today from Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Calif.), who chairs the House…

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