for the SBX vessel management and physical security to the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command. MDA retains responsibility for communications, the X-band Radar, and for mission integration. In February 2012, the Missile Defense Agency requested only $9.7 million per year for Fiscal Years 2013 through 2017, down from $176.8 million in fiscal 2012. This reduced amount would be used to maintain SBX in a "limited test support" role, "while also retaining the ability to recall it to an active, operational status if and when it is needed." In April 2012, it was reported that SBX-1 had left Pearl Harbor and was assumed to be being deployed to monitor North Korea's planned Unha-3 missile in the launch window of 12–16 April 2012. The vessel returned to Pearl Harbor on 21 May 2012. It redeployed to monitor the next North Korean launch attempt at the end of 2012. In April 2013, it was reported that SBX-1 was being deployed to monitor North Korea. It has never been deployed to Adak. In November 2015, it was moved to Pearl Harbor for repairs and testing. It departed Pearl Harbor November 2017 for North Pacific Ocean waters to monitor North Korea ballistic missile operations. In January 2017 the SBX-1 was deployed into the Pacific during North Korean threats of ICBM and nuclear attacks on other nations. The radar was able to perform its mission of tracking a target operating at ICBM speeds during the interception of a mock ICBM by a GMD interceptor on 30 May 2017. In May 2019, the SBX-1 docked on the north side of Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, where it underwent maintenance. It departed Pearl Harbor on 26 September 2019. Gallery In popular culture A fictionalized version of SBX-1, armed with "Interceptor" anti-ballistic missiles, is used as the setting for the 2022 action drama film Interceptor. The SBX-1 has become known to locals of Oahu as the "Golf Ball" due to its color and shape. See also Texas Towers, similar structures USNS Observation Island (T-AGM-23), similar observation stations USNS Invincible (T-AGM-24), similar radar USNS Howard O. Lorenzen (T-AGM-25), similar observation stations References External links Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) Sourcebook, July 2007 (24M PDF) via Federation of American Scientists Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) Sourcebook Volume II, via Federation of American Scientists Sea-Based Ballistic Missile Defense -- Background and Issues for Congress, Congressional Research Service, June 2007, via Federation of American Scientists