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GAO Report: 15-Year Funding Requirements

Date:	1992-02-24
Report no.:	NSIAD-92-92FS
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Subjects:	Weapons systems, Air defense systems, Defense appropriations, Defense budgets, Future budget projections, Program management, Research and development, Weapons research and development, Corps Surface-to-Air Missile, GPALS, Patriot Missile System, SDI, SDI Advanced Contingency Theatre Sensor, SDI Arrow Continuation Experiments, SDI Brilliant Pebbles Program, SDI Endo-Exoatmospheric Interceptor, SDI Extended Range Interceptor, SDI Global Protection Against Limited Strikes System
Summary:	In the spring of 1991, the Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization testified before Congress on his funding needs through fiscal year 2005. He projected that funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program will peak during fiscal years 1995 through 2000 at roughly $7 billion in fiscal year 1991 dollars. This fact sheet describes in detail funding requirements for (1) the Global Protection Against Limited Strikes system's three segments--Global, National, and Theater Defenses, (2) the major weapon and sensor projects in each segment, (3) technology development, and (4) management and support for the whole SDI program.