Missile Defense News

May 21, 2020

Space Leaders Plan for Missile Defense, Daily Ops

Air Force Magazine: Space stakeholders are moving forward with a new plan for missile defense, warning, and tracking after a

May 21, 2020

DOD’s Top Scientist Shoots Down Airborne Lasers for Missile Defense

Defense One: What’s needed, Griffin says, is more research into how to use weapons of various strengths in other kinds

May 20, 2020

US Navy issues new distance guidelines for vessels after close encounters with Iranian ships

Navy Times The U.S. Navy warned Tuesday it will take “lawful defensive measures” against vessels in the Mideast that come

May 20, 2020

Army Awards Lockheed $497M for Missile Post-Production Service Extension

Govconwire Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a two-year, $497.3M contract modification to continue providing post-production services for the U.S. Army’s missile

May 20, 2020

The Pentagon Tries to Pivot out of the Middle East—Again

Foreign Policy When the U.S. Defense Department announced, on May 7, that it would withdraw two Patriot missile batteries and

May 20, 2020

Key lawmaker urges Iron Dome deployment to Mideast

Defense News Sen. John Boozman is pressing the Pentagon to upend its plans for Iron Dome and deploy one battery

May 20, 2020

Don’t Use COVID As Excuse to Slash Defense Spending

Breaking Defense Even as many Americans huddle in their homes to avoid the coronavirus, our adversaries have continued to use

May 20, 2020

No Shipbuilding Plan, But Navy Works On New Ships To Counter China

Breaking Defense The Navy might not yet have an overarching plan to design and build its fleet of the future, but it

May 20, 2020

PEO M&S Pursues Modernization Undeterred by Pandemic

U.S. Army Federal, DOD, Army, state and local authorities have issued various directives limiting access to government installations and industry

May 19, 2020

Why North Korea-US relations will remain stable unless Kim really needs coronavirus aid

Brookings: U.S.-North Korea relations are likely for the rest of 2020 to follow the adage, “the more things change, the

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