The Missile Defense Agency and the Color of Money by Karako Thomas; & Wes Rumbaugh & Ian Williams

Author:Karako, Thomas; & Wes Rumbaugh & Ian Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781442259669
Publisher: Center for Strategic & International Studies
Published: 2016-06-28T00:00:00+00:00

PATRIOT PRECEDENT

To be sure, MDA’s recent procurement is not without precedent. Theater missile defense programs like PATRIOT, for instance, were procured by BMDO, but at modest levels. Although the creation of SDIO in 1984 had consolidated many missile defense–related programs from the Services, PATRIOT would later return to the Army, at Congress’s direction.

Most procurement in the 1990s and early 2000s supported the PATRIOT family (see Figure 3.1). The below graph illustrates the accelerating trend in the use of BMDO to procure theater missile defense assets for the Services between FY1996 and FY2003. Congress, however, directed the transfer back to the Army—where it had previously been originated, decades before SDI, as SAM-D.9

Here one sees a precedent of passing missile defense procurement back to a Service, and a precedent of Congress settling disputes about whether the Services or a defense-wide office or agency should procure important systems. Whether PATRIOT modernization has received the same attention and focus in the Army that it might have in a missile defense–centric entity is an open question. PATRIOT procurement and RDT&E funding have declined since they were transferred from BMDO to the Army in 2003 (see Figure I.2). Indeed, a future administration may wish to reassess transferring PATRIOT modernization efforts back from the Army into a missile defensecentric organization like MDA.

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