Study: BMD Development Hurt By MDA's 'Hobby Shop' Approach

The organizational culture of the Missile Defense Agency is still rooted in the early days of the Reagan-era Strategic Defense Initiative, when virtually every idea was considered as MDA worked on an impenetrable shield against a Soviet ballistic missile attack, and that approach is keeping the agency from becoming an efficient and cost-effective technology developer, according to a new report from the National Academy of Sciences.