NATO’s Military Committee last week approved a document detailing what officials want to see in a missile defense feasibility study to be conducted later this year (see GSN, May 15).

The classified military operational requirement was approved May 27 in remarkably short time, Jane’s Defense Weekly reported this week.  The contract for the study should be issued in October, Jane’s reported.

“There has been goodwill, accommodation and flexibility all round, and in a compressed timescale,” according to a NATO armaments official.  “The point of the new feasibility study is to inform a (future deployment) decision, not to presume it.  It is an options analysis to form a baseline from which that decision will be made — how and whether to go beyond TMD [theater missile defense],” he added (Luke Hill, Jane’s Defense Weekly, June 4).

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