The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on Sunday conducted the first flight test of a new three-stage booster for the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) System’s Ground Based Interceptor (GBI), demonstrating variable stage usage. The GMD aims to defend against a small number of longer range ...
Missile Defense
The Missile Defense Agency awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a $422 million maximum ceiling value contract for six more Boost Vehicles and related components for the Ground Based Interceptors (GBIs). This noncompetitive contract is split into $234 million for the base period, $112 million for Option ...
The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal 2022 defense authorization bill directs the U.S. Air Force and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to inform the committee of radars’ ability to detect low-flying hypersonic cruise missiles and any needed upgrades. “The committee is ...
As the Army assesses future air and missile defense requirements it must prepare to “ruthlessly” retire legacy air defense systems, such as its Patriot and Stinger systems, a lead modernization official said Tuesday. “We’re not going to Patriot and Stinger our way to a modernized air ...
The Navy plans to have an “exponential” improvement in the service’s space domain awareness (SDA) in the next several years with Aegis Weapon System upgrades planned for 30-40 ships, Rear Adm. Mike Bernacchi, the director of strategy, plans, and policy (J5) for U.S. Space Command, ...
The delays in Aegis Ashore Poland construction are related to long-term emplacement construction requirements, the head of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said Thursday. “The lesson learned for me when I look at that is, if we go do this again, we have to kind of decide: are we going to have a ...