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MDA Seeks Innovative Missile Defense Concepts For 2045 Threats

Friday, May 12th, 2023

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MDA Seeks Innovative Missile Defense Concepts For 2045 Threats

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The Missile Defense Agency is starting to consider what concepts and capabilities it might need around 2045 in a new request for information (RFI). MDA issued an RFI on May 5 to conduct market research “to assist in the identification of innovative Missile Defense System technologies, architectures, concepts and Concept of Operations (CONOPS) to address regional and homeland ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats in the 2045 time epoch.” Companies that respond to the solicitation can access a classified annex…

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