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More ominously, a report late last year by the Pentagon's top weapons tester said the ship "is not expected to be survivable in a hostile combat environment".
The Pentagon is facing undue pressure to meet an "artificial" deadline for recommending whether to deploy the national missile defense system, the project's senior weapons tester said in a report released today.
PAGE C1 Warning on Missile Defense The Pentagon is facing undue pressure to meet an "artificial" deadline for recommending whether to deploy a missile defense system, a weapons tester said.
After the failure in January, Philip E. Coyle III, the senior weapons tester at the Pentagon, said the short test schedule was putting undue pressure on the missile program by forcing it to meet an artificial deadline driven more by President Clinton's summer decision than scientific requirements.
"I feel sorry for the Army," said Thomas Christie, the Pentagon's top weapons tester from 2001 to 2005.
Michael Gilmore, the Army's top weapons tester, cited the soldiers' complaints in testimony before the House Armed Services Committee.
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Meanwhile, he and his partners have been in talks with the Army's Rapid Equipping Force and other branches, and plan to show off the AA-12s and the robots to weapons testers for the United States Special Operations Command, next month.
Because of its tiny population and distance from any continental land mass, the atoll and its surrounding seas offer weapons testers huge expanses that, almost unique in the world, are nearly free from traffic, whether human or radio.
NSS won't be the first to try selling an array of digital weapons to penetration testers.
Mr. Burns, who says he is a sensible gun owner, always remains calm — whether the news is about government undercover testers smuggling weapons past security workers or the traveler declaring to alarmed screeners: "You better check me close.
In more than 6,500 tests on 72 people, only one exposure went awry, the Pentagon officials said, when one person received a "nickle-size" burn on his back after a tester programmed the weapon incorrectly.
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