Funding, Flight Failure Plague GMD

By Amy Butler, Jen DiMascio .

Boeing’s Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) missile shield program is in a financial quandary owing to ongoing anemic Congressional funding from continued resolutions passed this fiscal year and an ongoing review into the program’s last flight-test failure.

Though Boeing is continuing to produce the Orbital Ground Based Interceptors (GBIs) made by Orbital Sciences, ...

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