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The Missile Defense Agency ('''MDA''') is the section of the United States Government's Department Of Defense responsible for developing a layered Defense against Ballistic Missile s. See National Missile Defense for the history of DoD missile defense programs. MISSION STATEMENT From the agency's web-page: "The Missile Defense Agency's mission is to develop, test and prepare for deployment of a missile defense system. Using complementary Interceptor s, land-, sea-, air- and space-based Sensors , and battle management Command And Control systems, the planned missile defense system will be able to engage all classes and ranges of ballistic missile threats. Our programmatic strategy is to develop, rigorously test, and continuously evaluate production, deployment and operational alternatives for the ballistic missile defense system. Missile defense systems being developed and tested by MDA are primarily based on hit-to-kill technology. It has been described as hitting a Bullet with a bullet - a capability that has been successfully demonstrated in test after test." MDA divides its systems into 3 categories, boost phase, '''mid-course phase''' and '''terminal phase''', each corresponding to a different Phase of the threat ballistic missile flight regime. Each phase offers different advantages and disadvantages to a missile defense system (see Missile Defense Classified By Trajectory Phase ), thus the layered defense approach concept should improve overall defense effectiveness. BOOST PHASE DEFENSE
One can distinguish disabling the warheads and just disabling the boosting capability. The latter has the risk of "shortfall": damage in countries between the launch site and the target location. See also APS Report . MIDCOURSE PHASE DEFENSE
An important aspect for this phase is distinguishing between actual warhead(s) and Decoy s. TERMINAL PHASE DEFENSE
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