GMD To Fly Again After Two-Year Grounding

The Pentagon plans to conduct a return-to-flight demonstration of the Boeing-led Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system on Jan. 26, according to officials at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., after the missile defense shield has been grounded for two years. The last successful GMD intercept took place in...

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