Missile Defense News

May 21, 2020

DOD’s Top Scientist Shoots Down Airborne Lasers for Missile Defense

Defense One: What’s needed, Griffin says, is more research into how to use weapons of various strengths in other kinds

May 20, 2020

US Navy issues new distance guidelines for vessels after close encounters with Iranian ships

Navy Times The U.S. Navy warned Tuesday it will take “lawful defensive measures” against vessels in the Mideast that come

May 20, 2020

Army Awards Lockheed $497M for Missile Post-Production Service Extension

Govconwire Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a two-year, $497.3M contract modification to continue providing post-production services for the U.S. Army’s missile

May 20, 2020

Key lawmaker urges Iron Dome deployment to Mideast

Defense News Sen. John Boozman is pressing the Pentagon to upend its plans for Iron Dome and deploy one battery

May 20, 2020

PEO M&S Pursues Modernization Undeterred by Pandemic

U.S. Army Federal, DOD, Army, state and local authorities have issued various directives limiting access to government installations and industry

May 19, 2020

Northrop Grumman gets $2.3 billion Space Force contract to develop missile-warning satellites

Space News: Northrop Grumman received a $2.37 billion contract to develop two satellites that will be part of a future

May 19, 2020

Destroyer USS Roosevelt brings upgraded missile defense to Rota

Stars and Stripes: The destroyer USS Roosevelt has arrived at its new homeport in Rota, Spain, bringing with it enhanced

May 18, 2020

Army IBCS: Joint, Up To A Point

Breaking Defense The Army’s IBCS missile defense command and control system is still in testing. But in the not too distant

May 14, 2020

America’s only missile defense brigade ‘deployed in place’

U.S. Army COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – As the stranglehold of the COVID-19 pandemic tightened its grip on America, closing schools,

May 13, 2020

JMSDF To Put Its Latest Aegis Destroyer JS Maya Through Its Paces

Naval News The Maya is JMSDF’s seventh Aegis ship, a state-of-the-art destroyer that was just commissioned in March 2020.The capability test that will be