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Reduced funding slows MDA’s hypersonic interceptor development
By: Jen Judson for Defense News
The Missile Defense Agency is facing a roughly three-year delay in its plan to deliver an interceptor capable of defeating a hypersonic weapon in the glide phase of flight, according to its director.
In an attempt to mitigate the delay, the agency truncated a competitive development effort years’ early, choosing one team to go it alone to design and build the Glide Phase Interceptor. But the program’s reduced funding levels have still slowed down the program, MDA confirmed in a May 6 statement to Defense News. “The glide phase interceptor program (delay) was due to priorities and resourcing decisions,” Lt. Gen. Heath Collins, MDA director, said in testimony before the House Armed Services Strategic Forces subcommittee on April 30.
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