Pentagon drops plan for ballistic missile radar system in Hawaii

February 17, 2020

Stars and Stripes:

The Defense Department has dropped plans to build a $1 billion ballistic missile tracking system in Hawaii, shifting funding instead to higher priorities.

During a briefing with reporters this week on the proposed fiscal 2021 budget, Vice Adm. Jon Hill, director of the Missile Defense Agency, said funding had been zeroed out in the proposed budget for the Pacific radar system, which would have also included a second site in a not yet chosen host nation in the region.

Hill said on Monday the decision was based on “host nation issues.”

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