“The best missile strategy is to destroy the missiles prior to launch. A focus on missile defeat could enable distributed non-kinetic systems with larger magazines and the ability to engage missiles before they can deploy complex decoys, countermeasures, maneuvers or multiple reentry vehicles,” said Rear Adm. Sean Regan, NORTHCOM’s director of operations.
By Theresa HitchensIntegrating commercial off-the-shelf computing on military platforms and how to make it work
The systems may be off-the-shelf, but the packaging for integration on vehicles and ships provides cradle-to-grave resiliency.
“I think the future of homeland defense looks vastly different than it does today,” NORTHCOM/NORAD Commander Gen. Glen VanHerck said Thursday.
By Theresa Hitchens
A THAAD system successfully launched a PAC-3 missile segment enhanced at White Sands Missile Range.
By Andrew Eversden
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Boeing’s lead in digital engineering has underpinned the F-15EX’s success, schedule and low price, and will provide rapid capability growth through open architecture and agile software development.
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The new capability should add flexibility to the Ground Based Interceptor.
By Aaron Mehta
Dalton, a longtime member of the CSIS think tank, has been the Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy since January.
By Aaron Mehta
MILSATCOM for the most critical no-fail missions
With multiple nuclear-capable threats and space itself being a contested domain, assured and protected MILSATCOM are more critical than ever before.
“Tanks shooting down cruise missiles is awesome — video game, sci-fi awesome,” Air Force acquisition czar Will Roper told a small group of reporters.
By Theresa Hitchens
“They’re cleaning up a bit of ‘the who’s in charge’ of deciding which mode is a particular sensor going to be in on any given time of the day,” one Pentagon expert said of the UCP’s changes to SPACECOM’s roles.
By Theresa Hitchens
The exercise, taking place this weekend off of the East Coast, will test Pentagon thinking about how to link air and sea assets against 4th and 5th generation threats.
By Paul McLeary
EUROSATORY: Like all military shows, Eurosatory – the French equivalent to the big AUSA annual meeting in the United States – takes the pulse of the land warfare market both from a technological and geopolitical point of view. Far from being exhaustive given the size of the show and the scope of such an endeavor,…
By Murielle Delaporte
WASHINGTON: The Senate Armed Services Committee has lost patience with the Army program to develop cruise missile defenses, IFPC, and reallocated $500 million to buy an off-the-shelf alternative by 2020. The system would defend US bases abroad from Russian, Chinese, Iranian, or North Korean strikes. While the bill language and SASC staff are careful not…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
PENTAGON: Yesterday’s $244 million missile defense test didn’t just hit an IBCM-like target for the first time in the history of the system: It hit a cutting-edge IBCM modeled on future North Korean weapons, complete with decoys to confuse defenders. “It actually replicated — without getting into classified details — an operational scenario that we’re…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Missile Defense Review sets “the stage for a high-stakes policy debate between those who value missile defense as an enabler of US grand strategy, and those who fear enhanced missile defense may start an arms race with Russia and China,” write Walter Slocombe and Robert Soofer.
By Walter Slocombe and Robert Soofer