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From: LindyBill6/12/2005 6:49:00 PM
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I guess this will be one of those defense systems where we bluff NK. They won't know if it will work anymore than we do. But if it does, it will stop them, and they are dead.

Agency: Anti-Missile Tests = Bad
Defense Tech
The American missile defense system is so lame that more tests may only undermine its value as a deterrent.

taurus3.jpgThat's the word from the Final Report of the Missile Defense Agency's Independent Review Team (IRT). The Washington Post first noted the report on Thursday. But Arms Control Wonk Jeffrey Lewis has combed through the document, and discovered its most controversial conclusions.

The IRT recommends five changes, the cumulative effect of which will be to make testing less likely:

1. Establish a More Rigorous Flight Readiness Certification Process

2. Strengthen Systems Engineering

3. Perform additional ground-based qualification testing as a requirement for flight testing

4. Hold contractor functional organizations accountable for supporting prime contract management

5. Assure that the GMD [ground-based midcourse defense] program is executable

The general effect of these recommendations is to create a presumption against conducting any scheduled flight test—what the IRT calls "Prove why should fly." For good measure, the IRT recommends making the next integrated flight test a "non-intercept" test.

Imagine that: First, MDA rushes a defense that won’t defend to meet a deadline that just happens to coincide with a Presidential election. Then, MDA scales way back on necessary testing, lest the bad guys figure out the damn thing doesn’t work."
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