Defense News:
On July 30 MDA conducted a successful missile defense test using the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. This follows a successful shoot-down of a ballistic missile this spring.
These recent wins could help build momentum behind MDA’s effort to win congressional funding for a variety of sensors and other technologies related to missile defense. The service wants to “press forward with plans to identify, develop and field cost-effective solutions to enhance BMDS sensors and discrimination for homeland and regional defenses,” Vice Adm. Jim Syring, then MDA director, told the House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Strategic Forces in June.
Syring went before Congress with a laundry list of sensors and related technologies the MDA says it wishes to pursue. “We are investing in radars and developing advanced electro-optical sensors to achieve a diverse sensor architecture that eventually will provide highly accurate midcourse tracking and discrimination,” he said.
