Comprehensive missile defense must be more than quality and quantity

Comprehensive missile defense must be more than quality and quantity
Comprehensive missile defense must be more than quality and quantity

“Numbers matter, as does interceptor quality, but a mix of GBIs and NGIs alone does not provide a comprehensive approach to missile defense,” write a trio of retired general officers. “We need to deploy our quality and quantity in a layered defense construct.”

Space Policy chief warns against ‘ridiculous’ testing aversion for new missile interceptor

Space Policy chief warns against ‘ridiculous’ testing aversion for new missile interceptor
Space Policy chief warns against ‘ridiculous’ testing aversion for new missile interceptor

“I would say the United States should prove to ourselves that we can shoot something down before we buy more of a thing,” said DoD Assistant Secretary for Space Policy John Plumb. “So, fly before you buy, if fly includes shooting a missile down to prove that it works.”

US Successfully Tests New Homeland Missile Defense Capability

US Successfully Tests New Homeland Missile Defense Capability
US Successfully Tests New Homeland Missile Defense Capability

The new capability should add flexibility to the Ground Based Interceptor.

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Transforming Missile Defense With Digital Twins

Transforming Missile Defense With Digital Twins
Transforming Missile Defense With Digital Twins

Smart tools and emerging technologies can deliver the Next-Gen Interceptor more affordably and faster than any other missile defense system.

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NGI Is The System The Nation Needs Now

NGI Is The System The Nation Needs Now
NGI Is The System The Nation Needs Now

To return GMD to a true deterrent, MDA must choose a partner with a track record of delivering across complex never fail missions. The nation deserves a partner who can leverage hit to kill technology, space programs, and strategic ballistic missiles capabilities and use them to modernize our missile defense in the face of an ever-persistent threat.

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Next-Gen Interceptor: A New Layer Of Missile Defense

Next-Gen Interceptor: A New Layer Of Missile Defense
Next-Gen Interceptor: A New Layer Of Missile Defense

A layered approach comprised of NGI, Aegis BMD and THAAD could be available in the mid to late-2020s, which strengthens our defense against a rogue state missile attack. Advertisement

Pentagon Cancels Multi-Billion $ Boeing Missile Defense Program

Pentagon Cancels Multi-Billion $ Boeing Missile Defense Program
Pentagon Cancels Multi-Billion $ Boeing Missile Defense Program

Scrapping Boeing’s Redesigned Kill Vehicle program — which was put on hold in March — will kick off a new effort to build a modernized generation of ballistic missile interceptors.

Congress, Pentagon Renew Old Fight Over 3rd Missile Defense Site

Congress, Pentagon Renew Old Fight Over 3rd Missile Defense Site
Congress, Pentagon Renew Old Fight Over 3rd Missile Defense Site

The Pentagon has long worried about the multi-billion dollar price tag that comes along with building a new interceptor field and its infrastructure. Influential lawmakers want a permanent site built that will support close to 1,000 jobs in their districts.

Pentagon’s New Ballistic Missile Interceptor Doesn’t Work, Suffers Years-Long Delay

Pentagon’s New Ballistic Missile Interceptor Doesn’t Work, Suffers Years-Long Delay
Pentagon’s New Ballistic Missile Interceptor Doesn’t Work, Suffers Years-Long Delay

What happens when the Pentagon’s new ballistic missile defeat program doesn’t work? They keep using the old one, which has a spotty track record.

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…

GMD Missile Defense Hits ICBM Target, Finally

GMD Missile Defense Hits ICBM Target, Finally
GMD Missile Defense Hits ICBM Target, Finally

WASHINGTON: Two days after North Korea’s latest missile launch, the US conducted a successful test of its homeland missile defense system for the first time in almost three years. Codenamed FTG-15, today’s event was also the system’s first test ever against an “ICBM-class” target, as opposed to lesser surrogates, the Missile Defense Agency announced. The painful…

47 Seconds From Hell: Last-Ditch Robotic Missile Defense

47 Seconds From Hell: Last-Ditch Robotic Missile Defense
47 Seconds From Hell: Last-Ditch Robotic Missile Defense

WASHINGTON: In a report out this morning, CSBA scholars Bryan Clark and Mark Gunzinger argue that we don’t just need new technology and new tactics to confront the growing missile threats from China and Russia, though lasers, railguns, and hypervelocity projectiles are all useful. We need a different missile defense mindset than what we have today, one that trusts…

Missile Defense Strategy ‘Not Sustainable,’ Salvation Lies In R&D

Missile Defense Strategy ‘Not Sustainable,’ Salvation Lies In R&D
Missile Defense Strategy ‘Not Sustainable,’ Salvation Lies In R&D

CAPITOL HILL: America’s missile defense strategy is “not sustainable,” the deputy director of the Missile Defense Agency said today. We can’t keep buying multi-million-dollar interceptors to shoot down adversaries’ ever-growing arsenals of much cheaper offensive missiles, said Brig. Gen. Kenneth Todorov. We have to find a better way, Todorov said: lasers, jammers, something. That means…

Chuck Hagel’s First Test: North Korea and the Second Nuclear Age

How do you deter a nuclear power like North Korea when it looks as if they just won’t play by the rules of conventional deterrence? What is the U.S. and allied nuclear and conventional responses to the threat of war on the Korean peninsula? In a world of dynamic learning, the North Koreans watched the…