Missile Defense: Actions Needed to Improve Planning and Cost Estimates for Long-Term Support of Ballistic Missile Defense

Abstract

The Department of Defense (DOD) has spent a total of over $115 billion since the mid-1980s to develop a Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) comprised of land, air, and sea-based elements such as missiles and radars working together as an integrated system. Since the cost to operate and support a weapon system usually accounts for most of a system's lifetime costs, the resources needed to fund BMDS could be significant as DOD fields an increasing number of BMDS elements. In 2005, DOD began planning to transition responsibility for supporting BMDS elements from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to the services.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA487071

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Area Defense
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Congress
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Early Warning Systems
  • Governments
  • High Altitude
  • Lessons Learned
  • Life Cycle Management
  • Military Acquisition
  • Teamwork
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Missile Defense Systems.