An “F” for Missile Defense:  How seven government reports in two months illustrate the need for missile defense to change its ways: "The multi-faceted missile defense program, currently the Pentagon’s golden child, has effectively avoided any and all tough questions.  Over $92 billion has been spent on missile defense systems since the Ronald Reagan administration, to little avail.  While the architecture still has not been finalized, the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) envisions a system of systems, including ground-, sea-, and air-based interceptor weapons supported by a satellite system and new X-band radars for missile tracking, and a high-speed computer-based command and control system to link all the pieces together.  Unfortunately, the interceptor programs have to yet to prove that they are ready for actual operations, the satellite project is severely over budget and behind schedule, the X-band radars are not yet fully deployed, and the computer network to control the mega-system has been found to have faulty security making it vulnerable to hacking."

(Via a DefenseTech.)