The Hill:

While our nation is understandably focused upon election year politics, members of Congress and defense oversight committee staffers are wrestling with another challenge that will have serious repercussions of its own: production and passage of a National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and Defense Appropriations Bill.

As long as our government continues to operate under continuing resolutions, the fate of a number of critical, new Department of Defense programs hangs in the balance. Within the rapidly-changing arena of ballistic missile defense, one such new initiative at the top of the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) list is the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI), a program that MDA believes will finally place U.S. missile defenses out in front of the threats we face.

A credible and capable defense against a rogue nation, such as North Korea or Iran, and their intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), has been, and will continue to be, a national imperative…

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