The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) plans to narrow down its competitors for hypersonic missile defense later this year, the agency’s director said Wednesday. “We have a Other Transaction Authority agreement in place with three separate companies that are competing now. We are evaluating those ...
Missile Defense
The Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) in Maryland says that it set a world record last month when the division fired a conical projectile–“hypercone”–109 nautical miles at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. Last October, NSWCDD said that it had tested ...
The Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) $9.6 billion fiscal year 2023 budget request includes increases for various missile defense interceptors, Guam defense, and increased research and development funds over the previous year. MDA’s request is split among $7.9 billion in research and development, $ ...
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $1.4 billion modification on March 31 to produce additional Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors and associated one-shot devices for both the U.S. and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) to Saudi Arabia. The Defense ...
The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) awarded Leidos [LDOS] two contracts worth over $47 million total for the alliance’s ballistic missile defense (BMD) program, the organization said on March 31. One contract, valued at about $33 million supports NATO upgrading its BMD ...
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the Army, and Lockheed Martin [LMT] successfully conducted an interception flight test on Tuesday using the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weapon system integrated with Patriot missile defense system interceptors. The test, called Flight Test THAAD ...