U.S. Missile Defense Agency

By Steve Trimble
The Defense Innovation Unit launched a competition on June 14 on the Navy’s behalf, calling for written responses to an urgent request in two weeks.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The agency proposes a major revamp of the U.S. Army’s most advanced theater-level interceptor 16 years after the first battery was activated.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
Following multiple failed attempts, the agency says airborne laser technology has evolved enough to deserve another shot.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The Missile Defense Agency will within a week conduct its first test of its new space-based hypersonic missile tracking system.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has taken over operations of its new missile defense radar in Alaska, which is also tracking objects on orbit for the Space Force.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
Cost is becoming an increasing challenge to missile defense systems, even as Israel’s success against Iran shows the value of the capability.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency seeks to field an “interim capability” against hypersonic glide vehicles by 2029 as the Glide Phase Interceptor slides to 2035.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The full details of the multinational, multilayered defense against the Iranian attack are still kept secret.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
Lockheed Martin will complete its design of the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) $17 billion Next Generation Interceptor.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The ANZAC class frigate HMAS Stuart and a Boeing E-7 Wedgetail supported the successful test of the Dual II Software Upgrade version of the SM-6 interceptor.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The announcement means Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman will be selected two years early for the next intercontinental ballistic missile-class interceptor.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin’s team has passed another milestone in a competitive design process with Northrop Grumman for the MDA's Next Generation Interceptor program.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
A pair of prototypes for the MDA's Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program reached orbit following launch onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9.
Space

By Garrett Reim
The Space Development Agency plans to launch its last group of Tranche 0 missile Tracking Layer demonstration satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A new contract awarded to Raytheon aims to expand the application and understanding of high-power microwave weapons beyond capabilities now entering service.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
Northrop Grumman’s Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) in late January passed its preliminary design review (PDR) on an accelerated schedule.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
There are two different levels of fire control tracks.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The service is adding a new approach to launch contracting, as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture takes shape.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The Missile Defense Agency on Dec. 11 successfully tested an upgraded Ground-Based Interceptor.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
MDA's deputy director offered several explanations to potentially justify an earlier down-select to one NGI contractor.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The Gamma variant is scheduled to follow into development the first two variants of the Space Development Agency's Tranche 2 Tracking Layer.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The agreement signed in October will support the development of future upgrades for the Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The site selection for the $33 million facility comes three years after Raytheon and Rafael announced plans to establish a U.S. domestic manufacturing center.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The test countered the threat of salvo attacks by a growing Chinese arsenal that includes anti-ship DF-21 ballistic missiles and subsonic YJ-83 cruise missiles.
Missile Defense & Weapons