The Department of Defense (DOD) has spent a total of over $115 billion since the mid-1980s to develop a Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) comprised of land, air, and sea-based elements such as missiles and radars working together as an integrated system. Since the cost to operate and support a weapon system usually accounts for most of a system's lifetime costs, the resources needed to fund BMDS could be significant as DOD fields an increasing number of BMDS elements. In 2005, DOD began planning to transition responsibility for supporting BMDS elements from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to the services.
Missile Defense: Actions Needed to Improve Planning and Cost Estimates for Long-Term Support of Ballistic Missile Defense
2008
53 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Antimissile Defense Systems , Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics , Management Practice , Defense planning , Cost estimates , Antimissile defense systems , Federal budgets , Radar , Transitions , Life expectancy(Service life) , Department of defense , Guided missiles , Weapon systems , Gao reports , Bmds(Ballistic missile defense system)
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