Missile Defense Delivery Delays Provide Opportunity for Increased Testing to Better Understand Capability

Abstract

In fiscal year 2018, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) made progress toward achieving its delivery and testing goals for some of the individual systemsknown as elementsthat combine and integrate to create the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). MDA is also making progress testing for integrated capabilities, which are achieved by combining BMDS elements. However, MDA did not meet its planned goals. The figure below shows MDAs progress delivering assets and conducting tests against its fiscal year 2018 plans.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 06, 2019
Accession Number
AD1173041

Entities

People

  • Cristina Chaplain

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Area Defense
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Battle Management
  • Best Practices
  • Congress
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Ground Based
  • High Altitude
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles
  • Kill Vehicles
  • Medium Range Ballistic Missiles
  • Reliability
  • Short Range Ballistic Missiles
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Systems Analysis and Design