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Congress should play a leading a role in steering the United States toward a strategically prudent and responsible missile defense policy—one that maximizes U.S. national security interests while averting an unnecessary nuclear arms race at a time when conventional challenges loom large.
Pentagon budget 2022: Missile Defense Agency budget ticks lower at USD8.9 billion by Daniel Wasserbly The White House’s proposed budget for the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) continues a slow downward trend for the agency, with USD8.917 billion requested in fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022). MDA had budgeted for USD9.187 billion in FY 2021, USD9.431 billion in FY 2020, and USD10.491 billion in FY 2019. The FY 2022 request, which is likely to be somewhat altered by lawmakers who must then pass it in both congressional chambers before the president enacts it, includes USD1.733 billion for the Groun...
Pentagon budget 2022: MDA seeks USD1.733 billion for strategic missile defence programme by Daniel Wasserbly The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is requesting about USD1.733 billion in fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022) to improve its strategic missile defence system, including USD926.1 million to develop a new interceptor. MDA had requested USD1.9 billion in FY 2021 to improve its Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) homeland missile defence system, which included USD664.1 million to kick off a Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) programme after a similar effort was cancelled in 2019. Improving the GM...
‘Wholly inadequate’: GOP slams Biden’s defense budget despite record investment in tech Abraham Mahshie © Provided by Washington Examiner Republicans did not even need to see the hard numbers to outright reject President Joe Biden’s proposed $715 billion defense budget despite record technology investments intended to confront China. The fiscal year 2022 defense budget reflects an $11 billion increase over the enacted amount. Still, it falls 0.4% short of inflation and does not provide the 3%-5% annual increase called for by GOP lawmakers and hawkish security experts...
The images of Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system deployed against thousands of Hamas rockets fired from Gaza made clear that effective missile defense is a matter of life and death.