GovConWire:

Since the 1980s, the United States has been pivoting along an ever-evolving tract of developing technologies to protect against and respond to adversarial missile attacks. The Missile Defense Agency (once the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization) aims to be agile in its stance toward threats from rogue nations like North Korea and Iran in recent years, which it says are currently focusing on intercontinental ballistic missiles—able to travel a range exceeding 3,400 miles.

In a keynote address at the Potomac Officers Club’s Industrial Space Defense Summit Thursday, MDA Executive Director Laura DeSimone said that for the agency, “everything revolves around the threat [and] starts with the threat.”

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