MDA Can Accelerate Next-Gen Interceptor: NORTHCOM Nominee

MDA Can Accelerate Next-Gen Interceptor: NORTHCOM Nominee
MDA Can Accelerate Next-Gen Interceptor: NORTHCOM Nominee

“I’m optimistic, based on my discussions with [MDA director] Jon Hill, that we’ll potentially see the Next-Generation Interceptor move further left,” Lt. Gen. Glen VanHerck told the Senate.

INDOPACOM Wants Billions To Build, As Pentagon Plans Cuts To Overseas Presence

INDOPACOM Wants Billions To Build, As Pentagon Plans Cuts To Overseas Presence
INDOPACOM Wants Billions To Build, As Pentagon Plans Cuts To Overseas Presence

By 2026, Adm. Philip Davidson said, the US will need additional air and missile defenses on Guam to counter a growing Chinese threat.

Future Missile War Needs New Kind Of Command: CSIS

Future Missile War Needs New Kind Of Command: CSIS
Future Missile War Needs New Kind Of Command: CSIS

Integrating missile defense – shooting down incoming missiles – with missile offense – destroying the launchers before they fire again – requires major changes in how the military fights.

Japan Halts $2.1B Aegis Ashore Work; New Black Eye For Struggling Program

Japan Halts $2.1B Aegis Ashore Work; New Black Eye For Struggling Program
Japan Halts $2.1B Aegis Ashore Work; New Black Eye For Struggling Program

“Due to considerations of cost and timing, we have stopped the process of introducing the Aegis Ashore system,” Japanese Defense Minister Toro Kono said. “For the time being, Japan will continue to counter (missile threats) with Aegis-equipped ships.”

EUCOM Calls For Two More Ships For Spanish Port

EUCOM Calls For Two More Ships For Spanish Port
EUCOM Calls For Two More Ships For Spanish Port

Gen. Tod Wolters reveals he’s built new infrastructure in Spain, waiting for the Navy to add two more destroyers to the four already there.

Stalled Polish Missile Defense Site Needs Extra $96M, 2 Years

Stalled Polish Missile Defense Site Needs Extra $96M, 2 Years
Stalled Polish Missile Defense Site Needs Extra $96M, 2 Years

Getting problem-plagued ballistic missile defense site online is an ever-higher-priority for the Pentagon as Iran and Russia move out on new missiles.

US Fires INF-Busting Missile, First Test Since Treaty Signed

US Fires INF-Busting Missile, First Test Since Treaty Signed
US Fires INF-Busting Missile, First Test Since Treaty Signed

The test puts the nail in the coffin of the INF Treaty, which the US withdrew from earlier this month.

How AI Could Change The Art Of War

Time-honored principles of command get weird when you add the fundamentally alien thinking of an artificial intelligence.

Back Off, Iran: US & Israel Complete Groundbreaking Missile Defense Exercise

Back Off, Iran: US & Israel Complete Groundbreaking Missile Defense Exercise
Back Off, Iran: US & Israel Complete Groundbreaking Missile Defense Exercise

For the first time, the US plugged its high-altitude THAAD into the Israeli missile defense network — just one of the ways the two countries are cooperating against Iran.

Fear & Loathing In AI: How The Army Triggered Fears Of Killer Robots

Why did an obscure Army program inspire headlines about “killer robots”?

More Missile Defense Ships, New Ground Deployments

More Missile Defense Ships, New Ground Deployments
More Missile Defense Ships, New Ground Deployments

Despite the Navy’s misgivings over having dozens of its ships sailing in boxes hunting for missiles, plans remain in place for more Aegis-capable hulls, as well as new radars, and mobile missile defense batteries.

The Navy Has Had Enough of Missile Defense And Sees Its Chance

The Navy Has Had Enough of Missile Defense And Sees Its Chance
The Navy Has Had Enough of Missile Defense And Sees Its Chance

WASHINGTON: The Navy is looking to get out of the missile defense business, the service’s top admiral said today, and the Pentagon’s new missile defense review might give the service the off-ramp it has been looking for to stop sailing in circles waiting for ground-based missile launches. This wasn’t the first time Adm. John Richardson…

Missile Defense Review a Multi-Billion IOU to White House

Missile Defense Review a Multi-Billion IOU to White House
Missile Defense Review a Multi-Billion IOU to White House

PENTAGON: Military and civilian leaders at the Pentagon are portraying the new Missile Defense Review as a common-sense response to aggressive Chinese and Russian investments in new hypersonic weapons and faster, longer-range missiles. The review marks “a new era in missile defense” undersecretary for policy John Rood said at the Pentagon Thursday. But mostly what…

Aegis Ashore Scores Another Hit As US, Japan Build Up Defenses

By 2021, plans call for Japan to have eight Aegis destroyers, four of them capable of launching the SM-3 Block IIA missiles, whose second successful test in a row comes as a vindication after two previous failures.