is currently defended by the ground-based missile defense system deployed in alaska and at vandenberg air force base. it's currently defended and will continue to be defended for the foreseeable future, although we should do work to make sure it stays that way. this is clearly and unambiguously stated in the ballistic missile defense review. the last test failure in the missile defense program was an experiment called ftg 06 followed by a replication of that experiment, the ftg06a. those two experiments were set up so as to make it easier to intercept the warhead. i invite people to ask me questions. i want to give you a little bit of an overview here. in fact, in the process of trying to make the warhead easier to hit, they inadvertently spewed out material that caused the x band radar to fail because the material acted much like what is known as radar chaff, which we know defeats this system. there is no argument in a technically sound community. i want to be clear on this. chaff defeats the system. the ballistic missile defense also says the new breakthroughs in missile defense tec