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Pentagon Budgets $450 Million More to Primary Missile Defense Program
The U.S. Defense Department has added $450 million to the Ground-base Midcourse Defense program budget for fiscal 2005, Defense Daily reported today (see GSN, Jan. 13). The Missile Defense Agency’s total request is not expected to become public until after the Bush administration submits its budget request to Congress on Feb. 2. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz added $300 million to the budget in a classified Dec. 30 document, according to Defense Daily. That document, Program Decision Memorandum III, is the “foundation document” for future changes to the missile defense program, a Pentagon source said. Pentagon Comptroller Dov Zakheim added another $150 million to the system’s fiscal 2005 budget in a program budget decision signed Jan. 6. At least $150 million of the new funding will go toward Block 2006, which seeks to integrate ground and space sensors into the overall command and control architecture. As the name suggests, the Pentagon is looking to field that effort in 2006. The remaining money will not go to cover a financial shortfall, but will be used to expand the program, according to a Pentagon source (Amy Butler, Defense Daily, Jan. 14).
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