DoD News

The mission of the Missile Defense Agency is defending the U.S., deployed forces, friends and allies from missiles of all sorts. “It’s a no-fail mission,” said its director, Navy Vice Adm. Jon A. Hill, speaking at the 11th annual McAleese Defense Programs Conference in Washington, D.C.

If there’s ever a war with a near-peer adversary, “missiles will be coming in fast and maneuvering. It’s a tough, tough world. It’s hard on sensor architecture and hard on fire control and hard on interceptors,” he said.

As such, MDA is planning to build next-generation interceptor and space-based sensors to track fast moving and fast maneuvering threats such as hypersonic weapons, he said.

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