Once operational, the EKV will be a critical part of the Missile Defense Agency's Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, scheduled for deployment in September 2004.

一旦投入使用，EKV将会成为美国导弹防御局(Missile Defense Agency)的陆基中段导弹防御系统(GMD)里一个重要的组成部分。对它的配置计划于2004年9月开始进行。

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That means expanding our homeland missile defense system Ground-based Midcourse Defense to an East Coast site, something that Congress has told the Pentagon to study.

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Such systems include all phases of the Phased Adaptive Approach to missile defenses in Europe, the modernization of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, and the continued development of the two-stage Ground-Based Interceptor as a technological and strategic hedge.

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