missile defense
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Missile DefenseOfficials Outline Cruise Missile And Guam Defense Progress, Value Of More Hypersonic Defense Funds
This week Defense Department officials told a Congressional panel how it is moving forward on cruise missile defense of the homeland, plans for increasing missile defense of Guam and the […]
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Missile DefenseMDA Unfunded List Leads With More SM-3 IIA Rounds, THAAD Interceptors
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) submitted a $367.5 million unfunded priorities list with the fiscal year 2022 budget request this month, topped with extra missile defense interceptors and more hypersonic […]
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Missile DefenseBiden Administration Launching “Imminent” New Missile Defense Review
The Defense Department is preparing to start a new round of examining missile defense policies and capabilities, a department official told a Senate panel Wednesday evening. “We are planning to […]
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Missile DefenseMDA FY 2022 Budget Request Slightly Lower Than Current Year
The Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) FY 2022 budget request is set at $8.9 billion, slightly under the $9.2 billion request from the current year. In budget documents, the Defense Department […]
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Missile DefenseHill Touts GBI Life Extension While Waiting For NGI
The head of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) argued service life extension program (SLEP) work on current Ground Based Interceptors (GBIs) in the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system will help […]
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InternationalNATO Starts Formidable Shield 2021 Air and Missile Defense Exercise
Naval forces from several NATO members began the Exercise At-Sea Demo/Formidable Shield 21 live-fire integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) exercise off the west coast of Scotland on May 15. […]
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Missile DefenseMDA Planning Second Test of SM-3 IIA Against ICBM Target
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is planning a second intercept flight test of the Standard Missile (SM)-3 Block IIA against an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) target following the first successful […]
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Missile DefenseMDA Head Says NGI Competition Will Quicken Fielding
The director of the Missile Defense Agency said the competition between two teams working on the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) is expected to accelerate the fielding of the new missile […]
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InternationalSweden Receives First PAC-3 MSE Interceptors
Lockheed Martin [LMT] delivered an initial order of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missiles to Sweden in April, the company said May 10. The State Department originally […]
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Missile DefenseGAO: MDA Cancelled Planned 2020 Cybersecurity Assessments To Change Approach
A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) conducted none of its planned operational cybersecurity assessments in fiscal year 2020 as it moves to change […]
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