Boeing Collects $2 Billion In Bonuses For Missile Defense System That Doesn’t Work
By David Willman, Tribune Washington Bureau
on September 5, 2016
Boeing collected nearly $2 billion in bonuses from the Pentagon for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system even though the interceptors failed to destroy their targets.
From 2002 through early last year, the Pentagon conducted 11 flight tests of the nation’s homeland missile defense system.
In the carefully scripted exercises, interceptors of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, or GMD, were launched from underground silos to pursue mock enemy warheads high above the Pacific.
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