GAO:

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) uses information from the intelligence community to determine how to design and test its weapon systems.

We found that MDA has recently increased its interaction with the intelligence community, but further collaboration could help MDA keep pace with evolving threats. For example, MDA has previously relied on some outdated threat information, risking its weapon systems’ performance. MDA can improve how it prioritizes requests for threat information to ensure it gets the needed information on time.

We made recommendations to improve how MDA interacts with and leverages information from the intelligence community.

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