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Article: MDA Considers Space Layer For Ballistic Missile Defense.(Missile Defense Agency)
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- Defense Daily
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- April 13, 2005
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By Ann Roosevelt
The changing nature of the threat and its global implications has led the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to once again consider adding space-based defenses to its developing multi-layer ballistic missile defense, the agency director said.
"Emerging threats and uncertainty would really have us take a hard look at developing a space-based layer that we could add to the system," Air Force Lt. Gen. Trey Obering, MDA director said at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 3rd Annual U.S. Missile Defense Conference in Washington on Monday.
Such a layer could consist of advanced sensors and interceptors.
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