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BMD-capable Aegis ships also operate in the Western Pacific and the Persian Gulf to provide regional defense against potential ballistic missile attacks from countries such as North Korea and Iran.\nThe Aegis BMD program is funded mostly through MDA\u2019s budget. The Navy\u2019s budget provides additional funding for BMD-related efforts. MDA\u2019s proposed FY2019 budget requests a total of $1,711.8 million in procurement and research and development funding for Aegis BMD efforts, including funding for two Aegis Ashore sites in Poland and Romania that are to be part of the EPAA. 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BMD-capable Aegis ships also operate in the Western Pacific and the Persian Gulf to provide regional defense against potential ballistic missile attacks from countries such as North Korea and Iran.\nThe Aegis BMD program is funded mostly through MDA\u2019s budget. The Navy\u2019s budget provides additional funding for BMD-related efforts. MDA\u2019s proposed FY2019 budget requests a total of $1,711.8 million in procurement and research and development funding for Aegis BMD efforts, including funding for two Aegis Ashore sites in Poland and Romania that are to be part of the EPAA. MDA\u2019s budget also includes operations and maintenance (O&M) and military construction (MilCon) funding for the Aegis BMD program.\nIssues for Congress regarding the Aegis BMD program include the following:\nwhether to approve, reject, or modify MDA\u2019s FY2019 funding procurement and research and development funding requests for the program;\nrequired numbers of BMD-capable Aegis ships versus available numbers of BMD-capable Aegis ships;\nthe burden that BMD operations may be placing on the Navy\u2019s fleet of Aegis ships, and whether there are alternative ways to perform BMD missions now performed by U.S. Navy Aegis ships, such as establishing more Aegis Ashore sites;\nburden sharing\u2014how European naval contributions to European BMD capabilities and operations compare to U.S. naval contributions to European BMD capabilities and operations;\nthe potential for ship-based lasers, electromagnetic railguns (EMRGs), and hypervelocity projectiles (HVPs) to contribute in coming years to Navy terminal-phase BMD operations and the impact this might eventually have on required numbers of ship-based BMD interceptor missiles; and\ntechnical risk and test and evaluation issues in the Aegis BMD program.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL33745", "sha1": "d4210c0e4e0bab09d70de1d701040e2299d59dd3", "filename": "files/20180705_RL33745_d4210c0e4e0bab09d70de1d701040e2299d59dd3.html", "images": { "/products/Getimages/?directory=RL/html/RL33745_files&id=/0.png": "files/20180705_RL33745_images_21045f6e0507cd2783d1876a6df46d46dc0a5098.png" } }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL33745", "sha1": "e1c429c81e7372898f80dd82ae9bb920cf05e6cb", "filename": "files/20180705_RL33745_e1c429c81e7372898f80dd82ae9bb920cf05e6cb.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4902, "name": "Air, Land, Sea, & Projection Forces" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 581358, "date": "2018-05-18", "retrieved": "2018-05-23T22:10:31.160503", "title": "Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Program: Background and Issues for Congress", "summary": "The Aegis ballistic missile defense (BMD) program, which is carried out by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Navy, gives Navy Aegis cruisers and destroyers a capability for conducting BMD operations. 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BMD-capable Aegis ships also operate in the Western Pacific and the Persian Gulf to provide regional defense against potential ballistic missile attacks from countries such as North Korea and Iran.\nThe Aegis BMD program is funded mostly through MDA\u2019s budget. The Navy\u2019s budget provides additional funding for BMD-related efforts. MDA\u2019s proposed FY2019 budget requests a total of $1,711.8 million in procurement and research and development funding for Aegis BMD efforts, including funding for two Aegis Ashore sites in Poland and Romania that are to be part of the EPAA. 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The temporary loss of these two BMD-capable ships reinforced, at the margin, concerns among some observers about required numbers of BMD-capable Aegis ships versus available numbers of BMD-capable Aegis ships, particularly for performing BMD operations in the Western Pacific.\nUnder the European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) for European BMD operations, BMD-capable Aegis ships are operating in European waters to defend Europe from potential ballistic missile attacks from countries such as Iran. BMD-capable Aegis ships also operate in the Western Pacific and the Persian Gulf to provide regional defense against potential ballistic missile attacks from countries such as North Korea and Iran.\nThe Aegis BMD program is funded mostly through MDA\u2019s budget. The Navy\u2019s budget provides additional funding for BMD-related efforts. MDA\u2019s proposed FY2018 budget, as amended on November 6, 2017, requests a total of $2,173.5 million in procurement and research and development funding for Aegis BMD efforts, including funding for two Aegis Ashore sites in Poland and Romania that are to be part of the EPAA. 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The temporary loss of these two BMD-capable ships reinforced, at the margin, concerns among some observers about required numbers of BMD-capable Aegis ships versus available numbers of BMD-capable Aegis ships, particularly for performing BMD operations in the Western Pacific.\nUnder the European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) for European BMD operations, BMD-capable Aegis ships are operating in European waters to defend Europe from potential ballistic missile attacks from countries such as Iran. BMD-capable Aegis ships also operate in the Western Pacific and the Persian Gulf to provide regional defense against potential ballistic missile attacks from countries such as North Korea and Iran.\nThe Aegis BMD program is funded mostly through MDA\u2019s budget. The Navy\u2019s budget provides additional funding for BMD-related efforts. 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