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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysaqxj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2010 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:30 a.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Daniel K. Inouye (chairman) pre- siding. Present: Senators Inouye, Dorgan, Feinstein, Bond, and Shelby. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY STATEMENT OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL PATRICK J. O'REILLY, DIREC- TOR OPENING STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN DANIEL K. INOUYE Chairman INOUYE. I'm pleased to welcome Lieutenant General Patrick O'Reilly, Director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), be- fore the subcommittee to discuss the fiscal year 2011 budget re- quest for missile defense. The request before us today continues the administration's ef- forts to achieve three goals: sustaining homeland defense against intercontinental ballistic missiles; increasing focus on defense against regional threats; and procuring and fielding proven tech- nologies. In fiscal year 2011, MDA's budget requests totaled $8.4 billion, a $500 million increase over fiscal year 2010. And I'm pleased to note that the request includes increases of $300 million for ground- based missile defense (GMD), $245 million for aegis ballistic mis- sile defense, and $160 million for theater high altitude defense over the levels approved by fiscal year 2010. These near-term programs are providing missile defense assets today, a capability that this subcommittee strongly supported for many years. However, even these near-term programs have chal- lenges. First, the GMD program had a failed intercept test last January that is still under review. Industrial-based challenges threaten the continued production of the ground-based interceptor missiles. And there is concern over whether the program has enough test articles to ensure its reliability out to 2032. Second, because of the continued success and steadfast progress of the aegis BMD system, the administration is now demanding (1)