The House Armed Services Committee approved an amendment to the FY ’20 defense authorization bill that reinstates a planned Standard Missile (SM)-3 Block IIA intercept test. While the FY ’18 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) required a test of the SM-3 IIA against an ICBM-range target ...
Missile Defense
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) expects delays in building the Poland missile defense site in the European missile defense program, pushing completion by 18 months to May 2020. MDA also curtailed testing of the system. The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) annual report on missile defense ...
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An annual Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on missile defense revealed design issues with the Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) are expected to increase costs by almost $600 million. GAO said this came after the RKV program was unable to meet its cost and schedule milestones throughout ...
The Department of Defense is preparing a stop-work order on activity for the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) program after assessing the current plan is “not viable” due to unspecified technical issues. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Mike ...
The Army’s new air and missile defense framework is intended to give commanders more flexibility to better protect assets and maneuver forces with the new battle command platform, sensors and anti-missile systems the service will field over the next decade, a top official said Tuesday. Col. Chad ...
