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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysafrq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2007 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:35 a.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Daniel K. Inouye (chairman) pre- siding. Present: Senators Inouye, Dorgan, Feinstein, Mikulski, Stevens, Cochran, and Shelby. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY STATEMENT OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL HENRY A. OBERING III, UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, DIRECTOR STATEMENT OF SENATOR DANIEL K. INOUYE Senator INOUYE. I am pleased to welcome Lieutenant General Obering, Director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Lieu- tenant General Campbell, who wears three hats-Commanding General of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, the U.S. Army Strategic Forces Command and the Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense. They are here before the subcommittee today to discuss the fiscal year 2008 budget request for missile defense. Gentlemen, it's been a banner year for missile defense. After nearly 25 years and over $90 billion spent, I believe we can finally say, with confidence, that we have turned the corner. The United States has a system in place that could be operational if needed. Indeed, when North Korea tested multiple missiles last January, parts of the missile defense system were on alert, tracking, and ready to respond. You should be proud of the agency's accomplishments. In the past year alone, the ground-based missile defense (GMD) inter- ceptor, the aegis sea-based missile defense system and the terminal high altitude area defense (THAAD), the theatre high area altitude defense system all succeeded as designed at intercepting targets which simulated attacking missiles. Today we face a new challenge. It is time to get these missile de- fense capabilities operational and fielded. It's time to move from re- search and development to fielding a system that is fully tested (1)