Missile Defense News

January 5, 2021

Defense Department Awards Contract to SpaceX for 2 Vandenberg AFB Launches

Noozhawk.com:   The Department of Defense awarded Space Exploration Technologies a pair of missions that will involve two rocket launches

January 5, 2021

SpaceX, L3Harris pursue hypersonic missile defense system

United Press International:   SpaceX has won a $150 million contract to launch the U.S. Department of Defense’s first batch

January 5, 2021

New in 2021: The Army’s Project Convergence scales up

Army Times:   An ambitious project that could be the fulcrum for how the Army and other services leverage the

January 5, 2021

Update: Raytheon readies for initial flight test of baseline AMRAAM-ER design

Janes.com:   Raytheon Missiles & Defense (RMD) is expected to conduct the first flight test of its baseline surface-launched variant

January 4, 2021

Future USS Daniel Inouye completes builder’s trials

Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet:   The future USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118) successfully completed builder’s trials, Dec. 19, after spending

January 4, 2021

Russian Defense Ministry expects S-500 air defense system to enter service in 2021

TASS Russian News Agency:   Russia plans to complete the trials of its state-of-the-art S-500 surface-to-air missile/anti-ballistic missile system and

January 4, 2021

Army Brings Space Capabilities Down to Earth

SIGNAL Magazine:   The benefits of space are being delivered to the ground-based warfighter in greater degrees, as the Army

January 4, 2021

The US Army faces a threat from the air that the Air Force can’t stop. Here’s how it’s trying to defend itself

Business Insider:   The recent six-week war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Karabakh region left nearly 6,000 troops

January 4, 2021

Report to Congress on Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense

USNI News:   The following is the Dec. 23, 2020, Congressional Research Service report Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD)

January 4, 2021

MDA secures partial win for No. 1 unfunded priority: more SM-3 Block IIA interceptors

Inside Defense:   The Missile Defense Agency has secured a more than $200 million boost for the Standard Missile-3 Block

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