The Redstone Rocket:

The Missile Defense Agency capped a year of accomplishments with the successful execution of Flight Test Aegis Weapon System-44, proving a new capability for defense of the homeland.

This successful demonstration closes 2020 as a year with a significant list of achievements in Missile Defense System tests, program developments, construction projects, and operational successes, while ensuring the safety of the MDA workforce during an unprecedented pandemic.

“With each passing day, we are strengthening and improving the nation’s missile defense system,” Maj. Gen. Philip Garrant, program executive for Ground-based Weapon Systems, said.

Garrant gave an overview of MDA’s 2020 achievements, in November, to the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber.

He praised the agency’s 2020 updates to the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system’s hardware and software as the most significant in the program’s history, and noted that the MDA has begun seeking proposals for GMD’s Next-Generation Interceptor. NGI will include a new booster and kill-vehicle payload, which will be developed and built as an integrated weapon system. The agency also made progress with the construction of GMD Missile Field 4, in Fort Greely, Alaska, building 13 silos and interface vaults…

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