The goal is to deliver new automated capabilities that will significantly improve the effectiveness of the US Army’s existing air and missile defense systems against rapidly evolving aerial threats.

WASHINGTON — The Missile Defense Agency successfully launched a mock-up of a kill vehicle with a new three-stage booster designed to enhance the performance of the interceptors that make up the ...

GMD is one of several U.S. missile-defense programs The Pentagon reportedly has spent about $180 billion on the GMD program since is it was begun in 2002. Latest News Twitter ...

COL Anthony Behrens, U.S. Army, talks about how integration can bring new capabilities to the Air and Missile Defense Battle Command system. This event took place on October 14, 2020 As the Department ...

WASHINGTON — The Missile Defense Agency’s $8.9 billion fiscal 2022 budget request focuses heavily on the development of future capabilities including a next-generation interceptor for homeland ...

WASHINGTON — The House Armed Services Committee wants to quickly resurrect a shelved U.S. Missile Defense Agency concept to place several miniaturized kill vehicles atop a single interceptor to ...

Boeing [NYSE:BA] and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) successfully demonstrated an advanced interceptor capability for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, which defends the U.S ...

An upgraded ground based interceptor with an enhanced Exo-Atmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) is launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday. Credit: Missile Defense Agency photo A missile ...

Lockheed Martin announced today that its team has successfully completed initial testing of the kill vehicle divert thruster for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Multiple Kill Vehicle Payload ...

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency asked for $400 million to work on the RKV in 2019. The goal at the time was to deploy the new warhead starting in 2023.

The Missile Defense Agency tasks Modern Technology Solutions Inc. to look at the creation of kill webs for defeating threats. Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has won a potential five-year, $73.5 ...