MDA chooses sea-based radar for missile defense

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has decided to build a sea-based X-band radar for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, ending a critical debate over what radar would be used in the "contingency" capability that is supposed to be operational by 2004. In a contract notice issued Aug. 1...

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