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U.S. Plans: Missile Defense Deadline Could Hurt Overall Effort, GAO Says In the effort to field a missile defense capability by October 2004, the United States might cause damage to the overall goal of defending the country against the threat of ballistic missiles, according to a General Accounting Office report scheduled to be released tomorrow (see GSN, May 16). The Missile Defense Agency has cut flight tests, leading the GAO to claim that the lack of proven technology could leave the system “impaired.” “Giving up this approach opens the door to greater cost and performance risks,” the report says. “While doing so may help meet the president’s deadline, it also increases the potential some elements may not work as intended,” the report adds. The MDA disagreed with the report. “We are highly confident that we will field an effective, reliable defense of our 50 states by fall of 2004,” the agency said. “This confidence comes from the outstanding technical success we have achieved in our development and test program,” the agency added (Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg.com, June 3).
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