"For too long, the U.S. has been committed to expensive missile defense strategies without sufficient consideration of the costs and real utility," said L. David Montague, the panel's co-chairman and a retired president of Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space.
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After two years of study, a panel of top scientists and military experts working for the National Research Council has concluded that the nation's protections against missile attack suffer from major shortcomings, leaving the United States vulnerable to certain kinds of long-range strikes.
In a report, the panel suggested that President Obama shift course and expand a system inherited from President George W. Bush, setting aside parts of an antimissile strategy he initiated in 2009. By doing so, the panel said, the nation's defenses would be better prepared to defeat the long-range missiles that the report suggests Iran may be developing.
It is the first time that the research council - an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, chartered by Congress to give scientific and technical advice to the government and considered the nation's pre-eminent group of scientists - has weighed in on the nation's overall plans for defeating missile attacks.
