Anthony Capaccio,Bloomberg
The Missile Defense Agency's positive review of the Aegis system also applied to a fresh land-based model that's now operating in Romania and may be deployed next year in Poland.
Greaves' agency requested $2.1 billion this year for Aegis missile-defense procurement and research, and plans to seek an additional $6.3 billion through 2022, or according to its budget submission. The Pentagon has proposed increasing the number of Navy Aegis ships with ballistic-missile defense capabilities to 36 by Sept. 30,2018, from 33 today and to 51 by the halt of fiscal 2022. In addition to making the Aegis system, and ...
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