Missile Defense

Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Wednesday won a $784 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to develop and produce a Long Range Discrimination Radar, a ground-based system designed to differentiate […]

If the United States wants to create a missile defense system with Gulf Cooperation Council countries in the Middle East, policy changes will be necessary to enable the integration of […]

BAE Systems netted a $46 million contract for continued maintenance and support of the Air Force’s solid state phased radar system (SSPARS). The contract modification extends work on an existing […]

The United States. military has long wanted to mount directed energy weapons like lasers on aircraft to perform various missions currently done with old fashioned guns and missiles, but it […]

Directed energy weapons would be ideal for countering many of the anti-access, area-denial threats that peer nations pose to the United States in wartime, but technology has not progressed to […]

Raytheon [RTN] officials have vowed to continue supporting Germany’s Patriot missile batteries, despite learning earlier this week the company lost a bid to provide Germany with its next-generation tactical air […]

The United States will fast-track arms sales to Gulf Cooperation Council member states through a dedicated Foreign Military Sales (FMS) office in an effort to bolster those nations’ abilities to […]

Days after a scathing report deemed the Sea-based X-band radar a flop, the deputy director of the Missile Defense Agency came to the defense of the platform on April 7, […]

Raytheon [RTN] Monday was awarded a $769.4 million direct commercial sale contract to upgrade an undisclosed number of Patriot Air and Missile Defense System batteries to the latest Patriot Missile […]

More training is needed for soldiers who operate and maintain the ballistic missile defense Patriot and THAAD forces, but operational needs and a lack of resources are not keeping up […]