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• Missile Defense Agency Progress Cited in Fixing Warhead

  The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency has pursued a rigorous process to investigate and solve a guidance flaw in the latest model of Raytheon Co.’s anti-missile interceptor, according to government auditors.

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  Pentagon Seeks $220 Million for Israel’s Iron Dome System

  The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency for the first time in its regular annual budget contains funds to buy additional Iron Dome missile defense systems for Israel, according to documents and an agency spokesman.

• Pentagon to Seek Less for Missile Defense in 2014 Budget

  The Pentagon will request $9.16 billion for missile defense programs for the 2014 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, about $550 million less than this year’s $9.71 billion, according to internal budget figures obtained by Bloomberg News.

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  Hagel Pressed to Add East Coast Missile Defense Site

  Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel should include funds in the Pentagon’s next budget request to start work on a U.S. East Coast site for 20 anti-missile interceptors as a defense against Iran, House Republicans said.

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  Pentagon to Add Missile Interceptors to Deter North Korea

  Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said the U.S. will add 14 interceptors to the 30 in its missile defense system by fiscal 2017, sending a signal to North Korea after the totalitarian regime threatened nuclear strikes.

• Admiral Named to Take Command of Missile Defense Agency

  The White House has tapped a Navy admiral to be the first sailor to head the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.

• Raytheon Missile-Defense Flaw May Be Fixed, Tester Says

  The Missile Defense Agency appears to have solved a flaw in the guidance system of Raytheon Co.’s latest interceptor warhead designed to protect the U.S. from intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to the Pentagon’s testing office.

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  Obama Backs Unproven Missile Defense for Uncertain Threat

  The Obama administration’s decision to shift $1 billion to a missile-defense system in the U.S. is raising questions about the still-unproven missile shield’s effectiveness and the threats posed by North Korea and Iran.

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  Raytheon Warhead Failure Costing Pentagon $1 Billion

  Test failures of Raytheon Co.’s interceptors, the most advanced U.S. anti-missile warhead, will cost the Pentagon more than $1 billion to remedy, according to military data.

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  Missile Defense Agency Will Fight Parts Defects

  U.S. missile defense contractors for the first time will be held financially responsible for poor- quality parts, such as those that have caused failures and delays to multimillion-dollar tests, according to documents and congressional testimony.

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