On April 16, 2008, the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs will hear testimony on the operational, accountability, and fiscal history of the nation’s ballistic missile defense program, and how that history informs our expectations of future costs and performance should Congress decide on continuing forward with this program. This hearing was the second in a series examining our country’s efforts on missile defense, a weapons development and acquisition commitment that has cost, by Congressional Research Service estimate, over $120 billion over the past 25 years.

Witness List:

Lisbeth Gronlund, Ph.D., Dr. Gronlund is a Senior Scientist and Co-Director of the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a Research Affiliate in the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Richard L. Garwin, Ph.D., Dr. Garwin is one of the world’s most eminent physicists and a longtime scholar of missile defense. He is Fellow Emeritus at IBM Corporation’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center.

Jeff Kueter, Mr. Kueter is the President of the George C. Marshall Institute in Washington, DC. He has served as Research Director at the National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM) and at Washington Nichibei Consultants.

Philip E. Coyle, III., Mr. Coyle was Assistant Secretary of Defense and Director of Operational Test and Evaluation in the Department of Defense from 1994-2001 (the longest-serving director in the 20-year history of that office). From 1959-1979, and again from 1981-1993, Mr. Coyle worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Mr. Coyle currently serves as a senior advisor to the Center for Defense Information.