Now that SLAMRAAM is dead (See APC post #85) and MEADS for now is hanging in there, here's an article from the end of Oct. 2010 that provided the "heads up" on the topic at hand.
http://www.defpro.com/news/details/18942/
The political rangling has started but when the Senate Minority Leader (Republican Mitch McConnell.) comes out to support the SECDEF publically on his recommendations it's pretty much a done deal.
Regards,
Pat