Missile Defense
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Air ForceRaytheon Awarded Air Force Contract to Provide Ground System for Missile Warning Architecture
Raytheon [RTN] has been awarded a $197 million five-year contract to help the Air Force collect and disseminate data from multiple sensors for its missile warning architecture, the company said […]
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BudgetHyten Urges More R&D Funds, Fewer Studies for Space-Based Sensor Layers
The Defense Department should invest more research-and-development funds toward efforts to eventually field a space-based early warning sensor layer in lower orbits, the U.S. military’s number-two general said Jan. 17. […]
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InternationalU.S. Early Warning System Helped Protect Troops from Iran Strike on Iraqi Bases
U.S. forces were able to seek protection before a series of ballistic missiles struck two Iraqi bases Jan. 7 thanks to an American early warning system, President Trump said Wednesday. […]
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Air Force
Appropriators Boost Air Force’s Next-Gen OPIR Program
The Air Force would receive an extra $75 million for a program set to build its future early warning missile detection satellites under the fiscal year 2020 defense spending bill […]
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ArmyArmy Completes Successful Final Development Test With IBCS Ahead Of Operational Evaluations In 2020
The Army on Thursday completed a successful final developmental test with its future missile defense command platform, taking down two cruise missile surrogates, as the program moves toward operational testing […]
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Air ForceAir Force, DoD Test Prototype Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile
The Air Force conducted a flight test of a new ground-launched ballistic missile Dec. 12 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, the Pentagon said Thursday. The test of the prototype […]
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Missile DefensePAC-3 CRIs Conduct Two Successful Missile Intercepts
Lockheed Martin [LMT] successfully conducted two tactical ballistic missile interception tests with the Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC)-3 Cost Reduction Initiative (CRI) interceptors, the company said Thursday. The company, which builds […]
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Missile DefenseRaytheon Wins $257 Million Mod To Build 24 SM-3 IIAs
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded Raytheon [RTN] a modification to increase an undefinitized contract action by $267 million to build 24 more Standard Missile-3 Block IIA missiles. This modification, […]
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Missile DefenseFour Companies Win Prototype Hypersonic Tracking Contracts
Four companies won $20 million contracts last week each to develop prototype payload designs for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program. Northrop Grumman [NOC], Leidos [LDOS], L3Harris […]
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CongressSASC Member Presses STRATCOM Head Nominee on RKV Cancellation
The Senate Armed Services Committee wants more answers as to why the Defense Department canceled the Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) from the likely next leader of U.S. Strategic Command, and […]