If that test is successful, he said, the system will be shipped to Israel for further testing and deployment.
"We don't want to have formal restrictions on development, testing and deployment," a senior administration official said today.
"T.S.A. competitively bids technologies and makes selections through a comprehensive research, testing and deployment process," said Kristin Lee, a spokeswoman.
The previous, cosy assumption of defence experts that some time must elapse between testing and deployment no longer holds good.
Many of the prohibitions, including the ban on the testing and deployment of space-based and sea-based defenses, would have been retained.
That accord, which Mr. Bush's choice for defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, dismissed last week as "ancient history," restricts the testing and deployment of antimissile systems.
The administration's position on the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which sets strict limits on the testing and deployment of antimissile systems, has been communicated privately to NATO allies.
Conservatives have long wanted to move quickly to breach the strict limits that the ABM treaty sets on the testing and deployment of antimissile systems.
The testing and deployment went so smoothly that mission managers decided to begin driving early, on Saturday, the Opportunity's seventh day on Mars.
One of Malcolm's first campaigns after becoming director of UNA-UK in 1982 called on states to freeze the production, testing and deployment of nuclear weapons.
