Breaking Defense

DoD and military leaders took a bipartisan beating from the House members this morning about not only the budgets for missile defense and “missile defeat” efforts, but also the policy direction of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA).

“While I have always been a strong support of this mission, I have a deep and justified skepticism of the programs direction transparency and accountability of the current enterprise,” growled the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee, Rep. Mike Turner.

In particular, both Democrats and Republicans grilled MDA chief Vice Adm. Jon Hill on the movement of funds from MDA to the Space Development Agency (SDA) for development of a space-based sensor for tracking ballistic and hypersonic cruise missiles.

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