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January 29, 2014

Global Security Newswire Story on Missile Defense Quotes Kingston Reif

Pentagon Test Czar Sees Possible Need for Interceptor Component Redesign

Rachel Oswald
January 29, 2014

The Pentagon’s testing czar on Wednesday said a critical piece of the U.S. missile-defense system may require a redesign following multiple test failures.

The Defense Department’s operational test and evaluation office concluded in its fiscal 2013 annual report that repeated misfires of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense, or “GMD,” system’s Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle “raise questions regarding the robustness of the EKV’s design.”

The three most recent attempts at intercepting a dummy ballistic missile using the Raytheon-developed EKV component have all been unsuccessful. The last successful test intercept was in 2008.

The Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle is the front-end component of the missile-defense architecture’s Ground Based Interceptor and uses kinetic force, rather than a detonating warhead, to destroy incoming missiles. There are two versions of the EKV component — the CE-1 kill vehicle and a later-generation CE-2 model.

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