Missile Defense

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is plagued by shrinking budgets and growing responsibilities that are increasingly hurting its ability to conduct the research and development needed to modernize the […]

Eleven former U.S. military leaders are urging lawmakers to nix a provision in the Senate version of the fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill that would repeal a requirement that […]

Thirty-seven U.S. senators have signed a letter urging leaders of a House-Senate conference committee to provide more than $600 million for Israeli missile defense programs in the fiscal year 2017 […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Friday tossed its hat into the still-unofficial program to develop an upgrade to Patriot missile defense radars. The Army on July 6 issued a request for […]

Israel is developing a naval version of its land-based Iron Dome system to defend its offshore gas fields against short-range rockets. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced in late May […]

The State Department approved a possible $65 million Foreign Military Sales (FMS) request to South Korea for SM-2 Block IIIB Standard missiles, containers and support. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has completed a series of four public meetings designed to receive feedback on a potential Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) site in the eastern United States. […]

Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who chaired the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 2011 to 2015, said June 30 that the United States needs to better protect […]

Current and former missile-defense officials are lamenting the presumed demise of the Army’s high-flying surveillance blimp. The Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor, shoehorned into the acronym […]

BRUSSELS – In response to what is generally seen as a Russia re-energized with Cold War-style expansionism, NATO is flexing its collective muscles including the deployment of Italian surface-to-air missiles […]