missile defense

The Missile Defense Agency on Thursday awarded RTX [RTX] a $1.94 billion contract to manufacture and assemble Standard Missile-3 missiles for both the U.S. and Japan. This award specifically covers […]

RTX’s Raytheon [RTX] business unit recently tested launching the Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) while using the Army’s Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) and Integrated Air and Missile Defense […]

RTX’s [RTX] Raytheon business unit won another $1.2 billion contract to provide Germany with more Patriot air and missile defense systems, the company announced Thursday. The company said this will […]

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) argued the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) program faces challenges as it plans to overlap the design and […]

Boeing [BA] on Wednesday detailed the work included in a May contract from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to continue longstanding work on the National Team–Systems and Engineering contract. The […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) expects the first flight test using a pair of prototype space-based hypersonic sensors to occur within a week while also starting to look at a […]

The director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on Thursday said the agency is looking at what additional current systems could be used or modified to defend against hypersonic threats […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Monday said it worked with the Defense Department to test fire a Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC)-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptor that destroyed a target using […]

The U.S. The Defense Department and Japan Ministry of Defense finalized an agreement to jointly develop and build a new hypersonic missile defense interceptor, with Japan to focus on propulsion […]

The director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) this week told lawmakers it would be “very hard” to reach the congressionally-mandated initial operating capacity (IOC) for the Glide Phase Interceptor […]