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Letter to the Honorable Thomas A. Daschle: Estimated Costs and Technical Characteristics of Selected National Missile Defense Systems 1 (January 2002)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo10018 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE U.S. CONGRESS WASHINGTON, DC 20515 Dan L. Crippen Director January 31, 2002 Honorable Thomas A. Daschle Majority Leader United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Mr. Leader: In response to your request, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated the potential costs of several different types of national missile defense systems and components: o the two-site ground-based midcourse system planned by the Clinton Administration; o a third ground-based site in addition to the two planned in that program; o an additional ground-based X-band (very high resolution) radar; o a stand-alone sea-based midcourse system; o a ship-based X-band radar; and o a constellation of space-based lasers. The cost estimates that CBO has prepared for individual systems should not be added together to yield an estimate of the total potential costs of national missile defense. For example, the sum of the estimates for the ground- and sea-based midcourse missile defense systems does not reflect the costs of a single combined system. If they were part of a combined system, the ground- and sea-based systems

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