Missile Defense

The fiscal year 2024 defense authorization bill, passed last week, kept provisions that push the Missile Defense Agency to operate counter-hypersonic interceptors earlier than currently planned and pushed the Defense […]

The United States, Japan and South Korea said on Tuesday they activated a real-time North Korea missile warning data sharing mechanism and established a multi-year plan for trilateral exercises. Previously, […]

RTX [RTX] and the Army recently completed the second successful live-fire demonstration of the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS), this time against a tactical ballistic missile. This […]

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) wants companies to submit proposals by Jan. 19 for a four-to-eight satellite constellation to detect and track hypersonic and other advanced missiles […]

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and Boeing [BA] said that a Dec. 11 test of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) demonstrated the possibility of engaging adversary ballistic missiles more rapidly. […]

Lt. Gen. Heath Collins has become the newest director of the Missile Defense Agency, following his confirmation by the Senate on Dec. 5, the agency said in a statement. Collins […]

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command is asking companies for their input on how digital engineering can aid SSC’s Epoch 2 missile warning/missile tracking effort, which is to result […]

RTX [RTX] used the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) to successfully help guide an intercept of a cruise missile type target, the company said on Monday. The […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded both Northrop Grumman [NOC] and RTX [RTX] another $54 million to fund further concept refinement for their hypersonic defense Glide Phase Intercept (GPI) concepts. […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Monday said it recently completed the preliminary design review (PDR) for its version of the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) and outlined next steps in its competition. […]