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Missile Defense Performance Top Concern
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A congressional investigative body recently concluded that operation of the Pentagon's fledgling missile defense system "remains uncertain and unverified."
Last fall, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) installed six long-range, ground-based ballistic missile interceptors in Alaska and two more in California. MDA also completed upgrading two early warning radars for tracking ballistic missiles and linked all these elements together with an expansive command and control communications network. Although President George W. Bush and top Pentagon officials said the system would be ready for action before 2005, it has yet to be declared operational, and test interceptors failed …
