{"id":36958,"date":"2022-03-09T19:32:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T19:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/03\/09\/construction-of-aegis-ashore-in-poland-nearing-completion\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:54:34","slug":"construction-of-aegis-ashore-in-poland-nearing-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2022\/03\/09\/construction-of-aegis-ashore-in-poland-nearing-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction of Aegis Ashore in Poland nearing completion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The Aegis Ashore system complex in Redzikowo, Poland<\/a>, from the outside appears complete, Vice Adm. Jon Hill, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency director, said, but there is still working going on to complete the system inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Construction problems have caused delays<\/a> in establishing operational capability of the the Aegis Ashore missile defense site in Poland <\/a>for roughly four years, and MDA and the Army Corps of Engineers have been working to make up for lost time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MDA has had one operational Aegis Ashore site in Deveslu, Romania,<\/a> since 2016 and intended to rapidly follow suit with the second site in Poland in 2018. The agency predicted after reassessing the situation that it would not have the site up and running any earlier than 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you go to a country like Poland and you set contracts to do military construction, you don\u2019t have total control over that,\u201d Hill said March 9 at the McAleese & Associates defense conference in Washington. \u201cIt\u2019s really an Army Corps thing. We could have done a couple of things here, right? I could have stood up here and thrown the Army Corps under the bus but I\u2019m not going to do that. They are our partners and we\u2019re doing a really hard thing out there with Aegis Ashore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hill has previously attributed delays to the contractor hired in Poland to do construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He told reporters in early 2020 that the design and engineering of auxiliary controls, heating, power and cooling, \u201cthe things that feed a combat system,\u201d was \u201cwhere the contractor [was] having problems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, Hill\u2019s predecessor, had said the schedule was also affected by poor weather and problems ramping up manpower and other resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\t