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U.S. Plans I: Senate Appropriators Boost Missile Defense Spending The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee last week boosted funding for purchasing Ground-based Midcourse Defense interceptors and the Arrow missile defense system in its fiscal 2004 defense spending bill, Defense Week reported today (see GSN, July 10). The bill adds $200 million to buy additional missile interceptors and tacks on another $90 million to the Arrow program (see GSN, July 10). The committee also added an unsolicited $20 million to the Pacific Missile Range Facility for facility improvements, and the Army Space and Missile Defense Command is slated to receive another $125 million. The increases are not matched in the House Appropriation Committee bill, and the differences will be worked out in conference, Defense Week reported. The Senate committee also cut $175 million from the Defense Department’s funding request for a kinetic-energy interceptor. In an effort to reduce program risk, the committee cut funding for the Space-Based Radar program by $75 million. The committee also cut a $194 million Navy request to modernize Aegis cruisers — ships that are crucial to the national missile defense plan — after lawmakers questioned the cost estimates and acquisition strategy (John Donnelly, Defense Week, July 14).
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