The Defense Department has moved directed energy (DE) funds out of the Missile Defense Agency and consolidated them under the office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, OUSD(R&E) led by Michael Griffin. DE is an example of shifting priorities within the department, ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) stopped funding a new ballistic missile defense radar in the Pacific and instead is studying the larger sensor architecture needed in region, the agency’s director said Monday. During the FY 2021 budget request briefing Monday, MDA Director Vice Adm. Jon Hill ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) laid out the schedule for the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) and lessons learned from the failure of the Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) in the Defense Department’s fiscal year 2021 budget request Monday. During a press conference, Michelle Atkinson, MDA Director ...

Senior Pentagon officials on Thursday said the department is working to receive the Iraqi government’s permission before deploying a Patriot missile defense system to the region. Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Army Gen. Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters they ...

Raytheon [RTN] has been awarded a $197 million five-year contract to help the Air Force collect and disseminate data from multiple sensors for its missile warning architecture, the company said Jan. 28. A ground system dubbed the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) Mission Data ...

The Defense Department should invest more research-and-development funds toward efforts to eventually field a space-based early warning sensor layer in lower orbits, the U.S. military’s number-two general said Jan. 17. Speaking for the first time publicly in his role as vice chairman of the Joint ...