Boeing-led Missile Defense Team Completes GMD Flight Test
Boeing, working with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and industry teammates, has returned the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system to testing with a successful flight. GMD is the United States’...
View ArticleHagel Pressed to Add East Coast Missile Defense Site
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel should include funds in the Pentagon’s next budget request to start work on a U.S. East Coast site for 20 anti-missile interceptors as a defense against Iran, House...
View ArticlePentagon to Seek Less for Missile Defense in 2014 Budget
The Pentagon will request $9.16 billion for missile defense programs for the 2014 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, about $550 million less than this year’s $9.71 billion, according to internal budget...
View ArticleUS Missile Defense Stumbles Toward Uncertain Threats
WASHINGTON — While the debate continues over how soon Iran or North Korea might be able to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that could strike the US mainland, the US government is...
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Exclusive: Pentagon to boost missile defense spending by over $4 billion:...
A Standard Missile-3 Block 1A interceptor is launched from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the Pacific Ocean February 13, 2013. The SM-3...
View ArticlePentagon plans work on new missile defense interceptor
(Reuters) – The next U.S. military budget will include funds to overhaul Boeing Co’s ground-based missile defense system and develop a replacement for an interceptor built by Raytheon Co, the...
View ArticleElectrical Leak Suspected in U.S. Missile Defense Test’s Failure
An electrical leak from a battery may have prevented a Raytheon Co. (RTN:US) warhead from separating from its booster rocket in a missile-defense test that failed in July, according to findings...
View ArticleU.S. aims to correct issue behind 2013 failed missile defense test
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Missile Defense Agency on Tuesday said it was optimistic it had found the cause of a failed missile defense test in July 2013 and aimed to carry out a fix for the entire...
View ArticleOrbital, ATK groups to combine
Orbital Sciences Corporation, which has about 75 employees at Vandenberg Air Force Base, will merge with Alliant Techsystems’ Aerospace and Defense groups to form a new company dubbed Orbital ATK. The...
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The unsheltering sky
Even with new technology, America’s multi-billion-dollar efforts to build a shield against long-range ballistic missiles looks doomed AS TEST flights go, FTG-06b was a dazzling affair. The mission was...
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