United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2003-05-08 monographic deposited born digital 8 p. GA 1.13:GAO-03-767R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-767R P0b002ee180377220 f:d03767r DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-767R machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-767R GAO-03-767R Ballistic missiles Defense capabilities Defense operations Integrated Flight Test Correspondence A06865 This report provides information on Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element flight test known as Integrated Flight Test (IFT)-16. This test was planned for the third quarter of fiscal year 2004 but was recently cancelled by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the agency within the Department of Defense (DOD) responsible for developing the ballistic missile defense system and its elements. Specifically, GAO was asked to determine the original purpose of IFT-16, how the test differed from IFT-14 and -15, and what new information IFT-16 would have provided had it been conducted. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-767R/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-767R.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-767R/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-767R.pdf GAO-03-767R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-767R Correspondence GAO-03-767R; Information on Cancelled Integrated Flight Test-16 for Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Element; Ballistic missiles Defense capabilities Defense operations Integrated Flight Test