The United States plans to spend about $5.8 billion over the next five years on a missile defense program designed to intercept incoming warheads from countries like North Korea, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
In a report made public Tuesday, the budget office provided the historical and future budgets for the Missile Defense Agency’s Ground-Based Midcourse Defense program, a missile defense system aimed at fending off ballistic missile threats from North Korea and Iran.
The report was made at the request of Sen. Jeff Sessions.
According to the report, the five-year budget of $5.8 billion, including costs for research, development and evaluation, as well as operation and maintenance for the program, breaks down to $1.15 billion in 2015, $1.43 billion in 2016, $1.25 billion in 2017, $1.01 billion in 2018 and $958 million in 2019.
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