Midcourse

However the U.S. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD, previously called NMD) system has recently reached initial operational capability.

Matthew Yglesias » A Piece of the Action 2010

'Midcourse Corrections' to Come at Home NEW DELHI-Followed by the politics of home, President Barack Obama on Sunday acknowledged that he must make some midcourse corrections '' if he is to win over a frustrated electorate and work with resurgent Republicans.

Obama Says Associated Press 2010

The interceptors proposed for Europe would use the kill vehicle and a modified version of the interceptor booster being fielded as part of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system.

Joe Cirincione: Post's Krauthammer Pushes Dangerous Fantasy 2009

He also notes that the Ground-Base Midcourse Defense System has been “promising of late,” and that “at this point there is a higher probability that we could shoot down a North Korean missile than there is of them actually being about to successfully launch a missile capable of hitting us.”

Missiles | ATTACKERMAN 2009

And in 2006, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a study titled “Healthy People 2010 Midcourse Review,” breaking down the various areas within Los Angeles by such topics as respiratory disease, obesity, sexually transmitted diseases, cardiovascular disease and food consumption, among others.

The Complexity of Caring for California's Uninsured Pregnant Women 2009

The Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system has gone through testing to see if it can do so, but it has failed consistently.

Think Progress » Washington Times Misfires on Missile Defense 2006

“While Ground-based Midcourse Defense System interceptors at Fort Greely, Alaska, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., were operational during the flight, top officials from the command were able to determine quickly that the launch posed no threat to the United States or its territories,” the statement said.

Think Progress » Washington Times Misfires on Missile Defense 2006

The Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system has gone through testing to see if it can do so, but it has failed consistently.

Think Progress » Washington Times Misfires on Missile Defense 2006

"Mid-course intercept systems" includes the controversial Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, which already has interceptors deployed in Alaska and California, and a variant of which the United States wants to put in Europe.

Joe Cirincione: New Pentagon Report Slams Missile Defense Agency 2008

What we do have now is the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense, which is operational with limited capability and noone really knows whether it would work against a hostile nuclear-armed ICBM.

Think Progress » BREAKING: North Korea Test Launches Missiles 2006