Missile Defense

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. […]

Boeing [BA] won a $70.5 million contract to develop and test technologies for the second phase of the Defense Advanced Research projects Agency’s (DARPA) counter-hypersonic missile interceptor program, Glide Breaker. […]

Poland approved a Letter of Acceptance with the U.S. Army to be the first international customer for the RTX [RTX] Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensors (LTAMDS) alongside dozens […]

A Missile Defense Agency (MDA) official recently said, after several years of setbacks, it aims to turn over the Poland Aegis Ashore missile defense site to the Navy before the […]

A top Missile Defense Agency official recently said its work on a new hypersonic missile defense effort is “throttled” due to new technology that has to be matured, but it […]