Missile Defense
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Missile DefenseMDA Confirms U.S. Exploring Cooperating On Hypersonic Defense Missiles With Japan
The director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) this week confirmed the Defense Department is exploring cooperatively developing and producing hypersonic defense missiles, akin to their shared work on the […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Requests $1.1 Billion Increase for Lower Orbit Missile Tracking
The U.S. Space Force is requesting a $1.1 billion increase over last year’s appropriated amount for lower orbit missile tracking systems–the so-called “resilient resilient missile warning/missile tracking” architecture. The service’s […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Fiscal 2024 Request Removes Funding for One Next Gen OPIR GEO Satellite
The U.S. Space Force’s fiscal 2024 budget request zeroes research and development funding for one of the three planned geosynchronous orbit (GEO) Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next Gen OPIR) […]
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Missile DefenseMDA Requests $10.9 Billion in 2024, With Focus On Guam Defense
The Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) fiscal year 2024 budget request is seeking $10.9 billion, up slightly from the $10.5 billion it was given for 2023, and with a large focus […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Researchers Outline Limits And Costs Of Hypersonic Missiles
SAN DIEGO– Two Navy researchers last month outlined some major limitations on adding and using hypersonic weapons., focused on physics limitations combined with expense. “So there is an advantage to […]
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Missile DefenseMDA Seeking Industry Input On Why It Only Had One Bid For $3.3 Billion Contract
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is seeking industry comments on why a solicitation for a contract to design, develop, test and field the next Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Weapon System […]
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Missile DefenseDOT&E Says Top Missile Defense Challenge Is Using Realistic Threat Stand-Ins In Tests
The latest annual report by the Pentagon’s top weapons tester said while the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) systems have largely demonstrated several capabilities the biggest challenge is the need for […]
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Air ForceRaytheon Work Continues on Cobra Dane Sustainment
On March 16, 2018, the Department of the Air Force awarded Raytheon Technologies [RTX] a seven-year, $511 million contract award for operations and maintenance of the AN/FPS-108 Cobra Dane missile […]
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Air ForceU.S. Space Force Looks for Bidders for Cobra Dane Systems Lifecycle Sustainment.
The U.S. Space Force this week issued a solicitation to sustain systems for the Raytheon Technologies [RTX] AN/FPS-108 Cobra Dane radar. The chosen contractor will provide life-cycle management of systems […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Awards for MEO Missile Tracking Spacecraft Total $605 Million
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded Raytheon Techologies’ [RTX] Intelligence & Space and Boeing’s [BA] Millennium Space Systems $605 million to design, build and deliver the first two prototype […]