U.S. missile defense said to face near $2 billion cut

Posted on February 20th, 2009

Reuters
Fri Feb 13, 2009
By Jim Wolf

The White House has asked the Pentagon to cut nearly $2 billion, or up to roughly 20 percent, from missile defense in its fiscal 2010 budget, a prominent advocate of the costliest U.S. weapons development effort said on Friday.

Boeing Co’s Airborne Laser, a modified 747 being designed to zap ballistic missiles moments after liftoff, was in “very serious jeopardy of being taken out,” said Riki Ellison, head of the industry-supported Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance. …

Another possible missile-defense cut would slow the projected installation of 10 two-stage interceptor missiles in Poland and a related radar site in the Czech Republic. …

http://uk.reuters.com/article/burningIssues/idUKTRE51C74720090213

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