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• Remarks by Lt Gen Ronald T. Kadish, USAF, Director, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, To The Congressional Breakfast Series, sponsored by National Defense University/National Defense Industrial Association Thursday, 30 March 2000 -- We are striving to deploy an initial NMD capability, or C-1, in fiscal '05. This will consist of 20 interceptors designed to counter a handful of missiles with simple countermeasures. We will move to an "expanded-capability-one" architecture, or Expanded C-1, in fiscal '07. By 2007, in other words, we plan to deploy a total of 100 interceptors. We won't seek approval to procure and deploy the ground-based interceptors and necessary spares until fiscal '03. A decision to build an X-Band Radar in Alaska will mean that site construction must begin in the spring of 2001. As a result of the fixes we have had to make, we postponed by two months the next integrated flight test, IFT-5, to June 26.
• Excerpts: Defense Secretary Cohen on National Missile Defense Program 24 March 2000 -- Defense Secretary Cohen says that America's European allies have raised a number of concerns about a limited U.S. National Missile Defense (NMD) program including the possibility that pursuing NMD will upset the existing U.S.-Russian strategic stability that they see is provided by the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• Sandia satellite launched successfully; technical difficulty worries MTI team Sandia Lab News 24 March 2000 - Vol.52, No.6 - The Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI), the product of Sandia's first full satellite development program, was successfully placed into orbit early Sunday morning, March 12.
• Pentagon Lowers, Meets Criteria For Missile Defense By Stephen Green San Diego Union-Tribune March 22, 2000 -- "It would be a bad career move for anyone at the Pentagon to tell the administration what it doesn't want to hear," said John Pike, a military expert with the Federation of American Scientists. "Even the original criteria were very modest and forgiving."
• Spence Reacts to Patriot Missile (PAC-2) Failure, House Armed Services Committee, U.S. Congress, 23 March 2000 -- "I am very concerned by the recent failure rates of the PAC-2 missiles."
• Testing of U.S. Missile Defense System Raises Many Questions CNN THE WORLD TODAY March 22, 2000 -- JOHN PIKE, FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: They can certainly make this thing work in tests most of the time. The challenge is to make it work in combat all of the time. Well, at the end of the day we are basically betting that unlike all of our other weapons systems, this thing is going to work perfectly in combat the first time because the risk of failure is that if one warhead gets through you have more dead Americans than were killed in every other war put together.
• U-S MISSILE DEFENSE Voice of America 21 March 2000 -- The head of the Pentagon's national missile defense program says a testing delay will not keep President Clinton from deciding this summer on whether to deploy an anti-missile system.
• U-S - PROLIFERATION Voice of America 21 March 2000 -- Senator John Kerry responded to Mr. Tenet's testimony by warning that the United States must not rush to develop a defense system that would alter the world's strategic balance.
• Imaging Satellite To Keep Eye on Worldwide Weapons Production By Andrew Bridges space.com 12 March 2000 -- "What MTI is intended to do is develop a target signature database of known facilities using a space-based sensor that will correct for atmospheric interference," said John Pike, an analyst with the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, D.C.
• MISSILE DEFENSE Voice of America 07 March 2000 -- The director of space policy at the Federation of American Scientists - John Pike - told V-O-A in a telephone interview that Washington has very little diplomatic room to maneuver on the issue. He says, in the end, the system will only make the world a more dangerous place.
• Ex-Employee Says Contractor Faked Results of Missile Tests By WILLIAM J. BROAD The New York Times March 7, 2000 - Dr. Schwartz's allegations center on TRW's certifying to the government that interceptors using its computer programs would succeed more than 95 percent of the time in picking out enemy warheads, even if they were hidden in a confusing blur of decoys in space. In fact, Dr. Schwartz said in court documents, the interceptors could do so only 5 to 15 percent of the time.
• Government Fraud and False Project/Technologies Dr. Nira Schwartz - For over ten years Contractor BOEING/TRW/NRC provided fraud and false technologies relative to a project known as Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV). Contract # DASG60-90-C-0165. Exo-atmospheric-kill-vehicle. BOEING/TRW/NRC provided to the Government false EKV performance reports, false test results, false test procedures, false robustness evaluation, false Risk Reduction test results and analysis. False discrimination performance that was based on alleged prior knowledge that was stated by the Government Technical Requirement Document (TRD) not to be available.
• NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY March 6, 2000 -- The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) has published a notice of availability (NOA) for a supplement to the National Missile Defense (NMD) deployment draft environmental impact statement (EIS) that addresses the potential environmental impacts of proposed replacement of interior electronic hardware and computer software at existing early warning radar (EWR) facilities.
• Rogue States Cannot Hope To Blackmail America Or Her Allies William S Cohen London Times March 1, 2000 -- Traditional deterrence rests on our ability to launch a devastating counter-strike against any country that uses weapons of mass destruction against America, its allies or deployed forces. Such measures worked against the Soviet Union, whose leaders were rational and risk-averse, but they may not deter rogue states whose leaders are indifferent to their people's welfare.