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U.S. Should Concentrate On Midcourse BMD, Not Boost Phase, Report Says

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, September 12th, 2012

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The United States should concentrate on midcourse missile defense systems and “stop spending money on boost-phase defense systems of any kind,” said a new, congressionally mandated report released yesterday by a committee of the National Research Council. "For too long, the U.S. has been committed to expensive missile defense strategies without sufficient consideration of the costs and real utility," said David Montague, committee co-chair and retired president of the missile system division at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space. "As the…

Pentagon

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Congress

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Army

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Unmanned Systems

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