A key Israeli missile defense system is in line to receive additional funding from Congress after a U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services subcommittee authorized $680 million in funds.

Iron Dome missile shield may get additional funding
by Zach Silberman
Staff Writer

A key Israeli missile defense system is in line to receive additional funding from Congress after a U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services subcommittee authorized $680 million in funds.

The approval for the Iron Dome missile defense system came during the Strategic Forces Subcommittee’s markup on Thursday of the fiscal year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act. A markup is the process in which a subcommittee prepares a bill to be referred to the full committee; the act in question authorizes defense spending levels.

The Obama administration gave Israel $205 million in 2009 on top of its $3 billion defense assistance to help launch the system; however, President Barack Obama’s original fiscal year 2013 budget proposal had no funding requested for the missile defense system.

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