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Secrecy News (blog)
April 26, 2018
Some members of the House Armed Services Committee want the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency to return to its previous practice of publicly disclosing information about planned flight tests of ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems and components. Earlier this year, the Department of Defense saidÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
April 26, 2018
And both John Rood and I have a background in missile defense,” the deputy told the Defense Writers Group. “And I spent the better part of the fall working on the National Defense Strategy and the Nuclear Posture Review, and we were waiting for John to get on board and he and I were going to tag teamÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
April 25, 2018
WASHINGTON ― Russian officials expect to sign a deal with India for Russia's S-400 surface-to-air missile defense system, according to Interfax news agency. “I think that in the current year we will sign the corresponding contract document,” Interfax quoted Dmitry Shugaev, the head of the Federal ServiceÃâà...
CBS News
April 25, 2018
Sergei Rudskoi said Russia will supply Syria with "new missile defense systems soon." Rudskoi's statement did not specify the type of weapons, but his remarks follow reports in the Russian media that Moscow is considering selling its S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Syria. Top Russian officials saidÃâà...
WBUR
April 25, 2018
"I think in the future you'll see a wider range of things like lasers and other types of directed energy-type technologies that will be brought to bear," says Raytheon's Laliberty. But Grego, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, warns against an escalating arms race. She says any future missile defense systemÃâà...
Aviation Week
April 25, 2018
One of the most difficult problems facing the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has been figuring out how to pinpoint a flying target . ... You must have an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) account or subscribe to this Market Briefing to access "MDA Pursues Missile Defense DiscriminationÃâà...
TASS
April 25, 2018
MOSCOW, April 24. /TASS/. The United States' ongoing efforts to build up its missile defense system create conditions for unleashing another spiral of arms race, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, commenting on the US Department of State's 2017 Compliance Report. "The United States'Ãâà...
DefenseNews.com
April 25, 2018
This past March hosted the 35th anniversary of U.S. President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative speech, in which he shared his vision of rendering intercontinental ballistic missiles “impotent and obsolete” by developing ballistic missile defense technologies. Over the course of his speech,Ãâà...
Scientific American (blog)
April 25, 2018
How should one think about missile defense: as a protective shield or a dangerous illusion? Missile defenses have as long a history as missiles do, and in the late 1960s American and Soviet scientists came to believe that a defense against long-range missiles would never be effective because the otherÃâà...
Business Insider
April 25, 2018
In what many saw as a direct reaction to the looming proliferation of the S-300 and other missile defense systems throughout the Middle East — but especially in Iran — Israel purchased a fleet of F-35 stealth fighter jets from the American Lockheed-Martin defense contractor. The state-of-the-art planes are meant to offer aÃâà...
CNBC
April 21, 2018
"Historically, every time Charlie Brown runs for the football, Lucy pulls it away," Thomas Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, previously told CNBC. "It would be a remarkable thing if Lucy didn't pull the football out from Charlie Brown this time,Ãâà...
SpaceNews
April 18, 2018
Lockheed Martin picked a veteran missile defense engineer to lead the company's space research organization known as the Advanced Technology Center, in Palo Alto, California. Nelson Pedreiro, formerly the chief engineer for strategic and missile defense systems and director of science and technologyÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
April 18, 2018
According to Ian Williams, associate director of the CSIS Missile Defense Project, this suggests the mysterious missile is equipped with some kind of homing ... Iran unveiled an upgraded missile defense system called the Kamin-2, designed to engage low-altitude threats, including a variety of UAVs andÃâà...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
April 12, 2018
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, in cooperation with the U.S. Air Force 30th Space Wing, the Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense and U.S. Northern Command, successfully intercepted an intercontinental ballistic missile target May 30 during a test of the Ground-basedÃâà...
Breaking Defense
April 12, 2018
“I'd say six to seven years to essentially work out the Concept of Operations (and) develop the capabilities — (whether) it's sensor-based or a new fast missile that's hung on the bottom of an F-35 for the BMDS (Ballistic Missile Defense) mission — integrate those capabilities, test them, and deliver them intoÃâà...
Newsweek
April 11, 2018
In an interview with Konstruktor (meaning “Designer”) magazine, Degtyar claimed the Satan 2 “makes the modern U.S. [anti-ballistic missile] defense systems inefficient, while the Sarmat missile complex will remain effective for the next 40 years” despite the deployment of the U.S. global missile shield.
FederalNewsRadio.com
April 10, 2018
This week on Off the Shelf, Booz Allen's Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Team provide an overview of the strategic importance of IAMD and the operational challenges and opportunities for the Department of Defense. Trey Obering, executive vice president, along with Booz Allen principalsÃâà...
Ontario Argus Observer
April 3, 2018
We're not completely vulnerable, though, and for a very good reason: We have a missile-defense system in place. And for that, we can thank the man who unveiled the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) 35 years ago. President Reagan's address to the nation on March 23, 1983, was a real game-changer.
The Diplomat
April 3, 2018
Russia Delivers 1st S-400 Missile Defense Regiment to China. The first complete Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missile unit has reportedly been delivered to China. By Franz-Stefan Gady for The Diplomat. April 03, 2018. Russia has delivered the first regimental set of S-400 Triumf advanced interceptor-based AirÃâà...
Asia Times
April 3, 2018
“Large-scale missile defense against a determined peer adversary like Russia or China still poses the arms race and crisis instability problems that are inherent in such technology.” A recent report from Chatham House, a London-based think tank, noted that new technology in the form of chips and otherÃâà...
Aerotech News (blog)
March 31, 2018
“We congratulate Poland on its recent anniversary of accession to NATO,” said Dan Verwiel, vice president and general manager, missile defense and protective systems, Northrop Grumman. “With IBCS, Poland sets a new standard for NATO for the most cutting edge IAMD capabilities possible.” “NorthropÃâà...
Ripon Advance
March 31, 2018
U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) successfully helped secure funding for U.S.-Israeli missile defense systems as part of the larger federal spending bill signed into law on March 23. Contained within the new fiscal year (FY) 2018 appropriations package, which funds the government through Sept. 30, is $705.8Ãâà...
ABC News
March 31, 2018
As with the other weapons he unveiled in his speech, Putin hailed the Sarmat as rendering ineffective even the most advanced missile defense systems that the United States might deploy for the foreseeable future. “No kind of, not even future missile defense systems will offer any trouble to the RussianÃâà...
Homeland Preparedness News
March 31, 2018
The government of Poland recently signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) agreement to purchase Raytheon's Patriot integrated air and missile defense system from the U.S. Army. This LOA is for Phase I of Poland's two-phase medium-range Integrated Air and Missile Defense procurement andÃâà...
Second Line of Defense
March 31, 2018
Defense News reports that the US Army is seeking to tie up its THAAD and Patriot air defense units with a common network within a two year framework, as part of efforts to establish a more effective, layered approach to air and missile defense (AMD). The effort is being led in South Korea, where bothÃâà...
Defenseworld.net
March 31, 2018
The government of Poland has signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) with the US government to purchase Northrop Grumman's Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS). The LOA allows the US government to start contracting with Northrop Grumman for productionÃâà...
Arab News
March 30, 2018
Within this context, the effectiveness of missile defense systems is a key facet of successful public relations. The “Iron Dome” that Patriot has been marketed as providing is an important psychological asset, but battle experience has shown that it is not infallible. The PAC-2 system uses a proximity-fusedÃâà...
Second Line of Defense
March 30, 2018
This ballistic missile defense (BMD) architecture combines ever-improving regional systems; “left-of-launch” capabilities that target missiles before they ascend; and an expanding Ground-Based Midcourse Defense network—Americans' primary defense against incoming Intercontinental Ballistic MissilesÃâà...
Breaking Defense
March 29, 2018
The first systems to deploy will also include Northrop Grumman's still in-development Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System, (IBCS), which has yet to be fielded to the U.S. Army after a series of system failures during testing. A modified version of the U.S. Army IBCS will be sent to theÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
March 29, 2018
The White House's pick for assistant secretary of defense for strategy, plans and capabilities has been outspoken in favor of America's missile defense. (John Hamilton/White Sands Missile Range Public Affairs). WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump has tapped a new assistant secretary ofÃâà...
CNBC
March 29, 2018
There is a missile-rich threat environment that is getting more powerful and it will hold U.S. forces at risk," Thomas Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told CNBC. Karako explained that missile threats posed to the U.S. include everything fromÃâà...
Aviation Week
March 26, 2018
Raytheon said March 26 it was beginning work on a $575 million, three-year U.S. Army contract first won last June now that a competitor's repeated protests have been discarded, potentially for the last ... THIS CONTENT REQUIRES SUBSCRIPTION ACCESS. You must have an Aviation Week IntelligenceÃâà...
Business Insider
March 26, 2018
yemen missile saudi arabia houthi riyadh Saudi Arabia's missile defense system intercepts several missiles fired from rebel-Houthis. Screenshot via Twitter/Rosie Perper. Saudi Arabia's missile interceptors may have "failed catastrophically" in their attempt to shoot down several missiles headed towards the its capital,Ãâà...
Polygraph.info
March 26, 2018
During his press conference in Tokyo on March 21, Lavrov said Japan's decision to deploy U.S.-made missile defense systems infringes on Russia's security. He accused Japan of actively deploying elements of the U.S. global missile defense system. Japan plans to deploy the Aegis Ashore systems toÃâà...
Haaretz
March 26, 2018
The mistaken firing of the Iron Dome interceptor system on Sunday night apparently attests to the high level of irascibility on the Gaza border surrounding Hamas' preparations for the upcoming rallies near the fence this weekend. It is not the first episode of its kind. In November there was a false alarm in theÃâà...
WSYM-TV
March 26, 2018
CHEYENNE, Wyoming -- On a windswept road, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, members of United States Air Force are stationed at one of the critical locales to our nation's defense system. The only marker is a nondescript, square Air Force building tucked away in the farmlands of Wyoming. It is theÃâà...
Haaretz
March 26, 2018
Saudi air defenses shot down seven ballistic missiles fired by Yemen's Houthi militia on Sunday, with debris killing a man in what was the first death in the capital during the Saudi-led coalition's three-year military campaign in Yemen. Saudi forces destroyed three missiles over northeastern Riyadh shortlyÃâà...
Haaretz
March 25, 2018
Israel's Iron dome missile defense system was activated several times late Sunday evening as a result of light artillery fire from a drill carried out by Hamas' military arm in the Gaza Strip. Multiple rocket sirens sounded in southern Israeli communities near the Gaza border, including in the city of Ashkelon.
Egypttoday
March 23, 2018
ANKARA - 23 March 2018: Turkey continues to hold talks with the Franco-Italian Eurosam consortium and the United States to buy missile defense systems, Ankara's foreign ministry spokesman said on Friday. In January, Turkey awarded Eurosam an 18-month contract for a study into the development and production of aÃâà...
Breaking Defense
March 23, 2018
The Aegis Ashore radar and missile defense complex is seeing “an unsatisfactory rate of construction progress,” Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, head of the Missile Defense Agency, told a Senate Armed Services Committee panel. He did not offer more details. The Pentagon didn't respond to a request for moreÃâà...
GovConWire
March 22, 2018
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 22, 2018 — A team comprised of Boeing (NYSE: BA), General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has moved to update the network that links the elements of the U.S. ballistic missile defenseÃâà...
FederalNewsRadio.com
March 22, 2018
This week on Off the Shelf, Booz Allen's Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Team provide an overview of the strategic importance of IAMD and the operational challenges and opportunities for the Department of Defense. Trey Obering, executive vice president, along with Booz Allen principalsÃâà...
ecns
March 22, 2018
Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov remained apart on Japan's plans to install a missile defense system in talks held Wednesday ahead of a bilateral leaders' summit in May. Both countries have long-remained at odds over the sovereignty of Russia-controlledÃâà...
AllGov
March 22, 2018
Air Force Lt. Gen. Samuel A. Greaves, who has spent his entire career working on space projects, took over as director of the Missile Defense Agency on June 16, 2017. The agency works on research, development, and testing of missile programs to defend the United States from attack. It has more thanÃâà...
Homeland Preparedness News
March 22, 2018
An industry team led by Lockheed Martin recently completed upgrades to the Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) system of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). The C2BMC network connects traditionally separate space, sea and terrestrial sensors and theirÃâà...
NPR
March 22, 2018
Rival India has been working on a missile defense system, which it claims to have successfully tested late last year. Meanwhile, Pakistan has concentrated on a possible countermeasure. In January 2017, it tested a missile that reportedly can deliver multiple warheads, known as MIRVs, which can greatlyÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
March 22, 2018
A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched from the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, during Flight Experiment THAAD-01, July 30, 2017. During the test, the THAAD weapon system successfully intercepted an air-launched, medium-range ballistic missileÃâà...
TASS
March 21, 2018
TOKYO, March 21. /TASS/. Japan's missile defense poses no threat to neighboring countries, including Russia, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono said on Wednesday following talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. "As for our missile defense plan, it is purely defensive and aimed atÃâà...
Department of Defense
March 9, 2018
U.S. soldiers from the 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, conduct emplacement and system validation for the MIM-104 Patriot air defense missiles battery at an Israeli exercise site during Juniper Cobra, Feb. 26, 2018. Juniper Cobra 2018 is a ballistic missile defense joint U.S.-Israel exerciseÃâà...
Department of Defense
March 7, 2018
"Within the Missile Defense Agency, the first priority we've got is to continue focusing on increasing system reliability and warfighting confidence,” he told the forum. Other priorities, Greaves said, include increasing engagement capacity and capability, and addressing advanced threats. The U.S. ballisticÃâà...
