Even with enhanced missile defense capability from the ground, the next MDA director will need to continue proliferating space-based sensors for tracking and defeating missile threats, Obering said.

American forces fired more than 150 THAAD interceptors at Iranian missiles and drones during the 12-day conflict between ...

A major American defense contractor is expanding its operations in North Alabama by bringing another large facility to a ...

Ahead of the thrice rescheduled Golden Dome industry summit, the director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) indirectly alluded to the ...

The Golden Dome, first proposed by President Donald Trump in May, is a multi-layered missile defense system that will protect the United States from aerial threats such as ballistic missiles and ...

Pentagon officials are aiming to test President Trump’s space-based Golden Dome missile defense system to safeguard the US in ...

Ukraine has previously acknowledged improvements that Russia has made to increase the maneuverability of its ballistic ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is increasingly capable of tracking and destroying approaching enemy ballistic missiles from “beyond the horizon” at sea, meaning new windows of attack are ...

WASHINGTON — The Missile Defense Agency’s $8.9 billion fiscal 2022 budget request focuses heavily on the development of future capabilities including a next-generation interceptor for homeland ...

WASHINGTON — The Missile Defense Agency canceled all 17 planned cybersecurity operational assessments last year opting instead for a new approach designed to improve cyber requirements, a new watchdog ...

“It was a [Defense] Department effort to consolidate directed energy work within the department,” Vice Adm. Jon Hill, Missile Defense Agency director, said during Tuesday’s hearing.

Elevating BMDO to agency status recognizes the national priority and mission emphasis on missile defense. The current director of BMDO, Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald T. Kadish, will assume the title ...