Department of State: Frank A. Rose Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance Institute for Corean-American Studies (ICAS) Introduction Thank you so much for that warm introduction. It is a pleasure to speak at this ICAS Symposium today and to return to Capitol Hill where I began my career just across the street on… read more
Department of Defense: WASHINGTON, May 19, 2015 – The Defense Department has not made a decision on the establishment of an East Coast-based missile defense site, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today. Navy Adm. James A. Winnefeld Jr. focused on U.S. missile defense during a discussion on national security at… read more
ABC News: Ukraine is open to considering proposals to place a ballistic missile-defense system on its territory to ward off the risk of attacks from Russia, a senior Ukrainian defense official said Wednesday. So far no one has offered. Oleksandr Turchynov, the head of Ukraine’s National Security Council, told Ukrinform news agency in an interview… read more
UPI: NATO’s missile command-and-control system is to be modernized by ThalesRaytheonSystems under a contract worth more than $105 million. The upgrades will strengthen and expand the functions of the alliance’s current missile defense command-and-control system and allow the alliance to link national sensors and interceptors with NATO’s Air Command at Ramstein Air Base Germany. “The… read more
USNI News: The National Defense Authorization Act passed on Friday by the House of Representatives includes measures to improve the capability of U.S. Aegis Ashore missile defense sites and to make it easier to sell the land-based system to allies. House Armed Services Committee (HASC) strategic forces subcommittee chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) offered an amendment… read more
Reuters: May 15 A U.S.-supplied missile shield to protect Gulf nations against Iranian attacks will take years to complete, requiring a step-up in regional trust, more U.S. sales of sensitive weapons, and intensive U.S. training to avoid mishaps in the volatile region. A renewed joint commitment to build the regional defense system was one of… read more
Deutsche Welle: The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” (SZ), a leading German national daily, reported on Friday that Berlin’s defense ministry had decided to purchase the Medium Extended Air Defense System (Meads) developed by US defense giant Lockheed Martin in cooperation with German MBDA and Italian companies. The defense ministry has, however, so far declined to confirm the… read more
War on the Rocks: This week President Obama convenes a summit with the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council, at which he will reportedly urge GCC members to move forward on missile defense cooperation. The range of cooperation under consideration consists of greater information and intelligence sharing, interoperability, additional foreign military sales on both a… read more
Defense One: If Iran launches a ballistic missile at the Middle East, nuclear or not, Arab states would have as little as four minutes to act before impact. Ideally, the launch would be detected, the missile tracked during its flight by radar and its trajectory then passed to an interceptor missile, which would then blast off.… read more
Redstone Rocket: Members of the Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command witnessed Command Sgt. Maj. Jerome Wiggins assume the top-level noncommissioned officer responsibility from Command Sgt. Maj. James Ross to become the command’s 11th command sergeant major. During the change of responsibility Friday, Lt. Gen. David Mann, SMDC/ARSTRAT commander, passed the ceremonial sword… read more