Trust But Verify: What Will New Missile Test Secrecy Hide? Theresa Hitchens, CDI Vice President First appeared in Defense News May 27, 2002
	As Congress raises concerns about proper oversight of the Pentagon's missile defense program, news that the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will now classify some test results as secret is raising eyebrows.

U.S. and Russian Cooperation on Missile Defense: How likely? The Troubling Story of the Russian American Observation Satellite (RAMOS) Program Dr. G. Wayne Glass, CDI Senior Advisor May 29, 2002

President Reagan spoke repeatedly about his intent to share missile defense technology with the Soviet Union as a means that could ultimately lead to the elimination of offensive strategic ballistic missiles, a position reiterated by President Bush leading up to the St. Petersburg summit. What few may know is that during the past decade, the U.S. and Russian governments have quietly undertaken a joint effort that could ultimately enable the Reagan-Bush vision to become a reality. At the same time, RAMOS has had to withstand repeated challenges from a variety of sources within the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government. This year the program is once again in danger of being terminated.

	Rhetoric or Reality? Missile Defense Under Bush Philip E. Coyle, CDI Senior Advisor Arms Control Today May 2002
	Weapons in Space: Silver Bullet or Russian Roulette? Theresa Hitchens, CDI Vice President Presentation to the Ballistic Missile Defense and the Weaponization of Space Project, Space Policy Institute and Security Policy Studies Program, Elliott School of International Affairs George Washington University. April 18, 2002
	Nunn-McCurdy Amendment As part of the Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1982, Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA) and Representative David McCurdy (D-OK) included language intended to limit cost growth in major weapons programs. Known as the Nunn-McCurdy amendment, the language called for the termination of weapons programs whose total costs grew by more than 25 percent above original estimates, unless they were certified as critical systems by the Secretary of Defense or if the cost growth was attributable to certain specified changes in the program.
	"The Unknown Spiral: Oversight Scheme Threatens Acquisition" Theresa Hitchens, CDI Vice President, argues in this Op Ed that the Pentagon's new approach for speeding weapons acquisition increases the risks that the military will buy faulty, overpriced equipment. The application of spiral development to the Bush administration's revised missile defense development program is especially troubling, as it raises the specter of wasteful spending on unready technology. Defense News — Inside View, March 11-17, 2002
	DOT&E FY'01 Annual Report Unclassified exerpts concerning defense programs including MEADS, THAAD, PAC-3 and others.
	Who Will Run Missile Defense? Analysis by Philip E. Coyle, CDI Senior Advisor Washington Post, Dec. 12, 2001.
	The Withdrawal of the United States from the ABM Treaty: A Failure of Russian Diplomacy or New Opportunities? Press conference featuring analysis by Dr. Ivan Safranchuk, Director, CDI Moscow.
	Joseph Biden and Philip Coyle on NMD Technology and the ABM Treaty From the Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference, June 2001, streaming video featuring remarks by Sen. Joseph Biden, Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Philip Coyle, former Asst. Secretary of Defense and Director of Operational Test and Evaluation. (Download Real Player)
	The Coyle Report August 2000 Report in Support of the National Missile Defense Deployment Readiness Review as prepared by Philip E. Coyle, former Director, Operational Test and Evaluation.

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