The Pentagon's Next Generation Interceptor program is on track to close out its design phase in December with an all-up-round (AUR) critical design review that will pivot the $10 billion effort into qualification testing and a four-shot intercept campaign meant to clear the way for production of the homeland's next-generation midcourse defense missile. On April 27, Missile Defense Agency Director Lt. Gen. Heath Collins told the Senate Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee the program will hold the AUR critical design...