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 GMD system has been a top priority for MDA, but the effort suffered a major setback after a new kill vehicle programme was terminated. (MDA)