U.S. Lawmakers Push for Home States To Host Third Missile Interceptor Site

摘要

Momentum behind establishing a third missile defense interceptor site in the United States continues to build, with lawmakers urging the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to move even faster and pushing to have the site located in their home states. In a hearing before the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee May 8, U.S. Navy Vice Adm. James Syring, the MDA's director, said he hoped to have a site recommendation in to the U.S. Department of Defense by the end of the summer. The MDA currently has interceptors at two U.S. sites: Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and Fort Greely, Alaska. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced in March that the MDA would increase the number of interceptors at Fort Greely and begin looking for a third site in the United States, something Republican lawmakers have been pushing for the past year.