Missile Defense News

January 5, 2018

Michigan Congressional delegation pushes Battle Creek for new missile defense project

Battle Creek Enquirer: The Michigan congressional delegation is again urging the defense department to select Battle Creek for a missile

January 4, 2018

Missile Defense Must Prioritize Homeland Defense

The Hill: The Trump administration and the Congress responded to North Korea’s ballistic missile tests by increasing the original missile

January 4, 2018

India’s Advanced Air Defense Interceptor Destroys Incoming Ballistic Missile in Test

The Diplomat: India has successfully test fired its indigenously designed and built Advanced Air Defense (AAD)/ Ashvin Advanced Defense interceptor

December 22, 2017

Spending bill allocates $200M for Fort Greely interceptors

KTOO Public Media: Congress passed a short-term spending bill today that includes one longer-term project for Alaska: the bill allocates

December 22, 2017

Japan Cabinet OKs record $46 bln defense budget

AP News: TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet on Friday approved Japan’s biggest 5.19 trillion yen ($46 billion) defense

December 22, 2017

$4.6B for missile defense, damaged Navy ships included in stopgap spending bill

The Hill: The stopgap spending measure passed by the House on Thursday includes slightly more than $4.6 billion for missile

December 21, 2017

U.S. House unveils new stop-gap funding bill to avert shutdown

Thomson Reuters Foundation News: WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Thursday advanced legislation to keep

December 21, 2017

DDG-51 Flight III Design Efforts Nearly Complete; Radar, Power Systems Testing in 2018

USNI News: WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer program office has completed 3D modeling of its Flight III

December 21, 2017

S. Korean Army to form weaponized drone unit next year

Yonhap News Agency: SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s Army will create a combat unit of weaponized drones next

December 19, 2017

Lockheed Martin Inks $110Mln For Development of New Anti-Air Defense Missile

Sputnik News: The US Department of Defense said in a press release that Lockheed Martin has received a $110-million contract