By WENDELL MINNICK
TAIPEI — A US congressman has introduced a provision directing the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to provide a report detailing any benefits, and associated costs and security requirements, of integrating Taiwan’s early warning radar (EWR) with US missile defense and sensor systems.
Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., introduced the provision May 1 into the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act. Forbes chairs the House Armed Services Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee.
The provision states that Taiwan “possesses a large and highly capable” EWR and that “the committee believes that, based on its geographical location, this radar could be a benefit to United States and allied missile defense objectives.”
The committee directs the MDA to provide the report in “unclassified form, with a classified annex if necessary” no later than Oct. 1.
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