Some KEI Program Implementation and Funding History
On May 7, 2009, Missile Defense Agency executive director David Altwegg announced that KEI would be canceled due to technical and financial reasons. The announcement to kill KEI had previously been overlooked during Defense Secretary Robert Gates' April 6 press conference on changing priorities in the FY10 defense budget. In an email of October 21, 2009 Senator Dianne Feinstein announced to her constituency that about $40 Million had been added to "the Senate… version of the fiscal year 2010 Defense Appropriations bill".
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