North Korean missile alert helped shake down missile defenses, Boeing says

Putting the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system on extended alert status last year in response to North Korea's ballistic missile tests provided an effective shakedown of the system and allowed the team to work out bugs that could not have been discovered any other way, according to GMD...

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