Missile Defense

Aerojet Rocketdyne [AJRD] on Monday said it has received a new contract from Lockheed Martin [LMT] to provide solid rocket motors and Divert and Attitude Control Systems (DACS) for the […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is preparing to shift its hypersonic missile defense effort analysis to hardware development after final reviews, the director said recently. The program, called Glide Phase […]

The “first string” of interceptors, launchers, radars and a command and control system for missile defenses set to be deployed to Guam will arrive in 2024, the director of the […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is supporting the Air Force in its cruise missile defense program with plans to test a national capital region capability later this summer, the head […]

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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]