Missile Defense Agency Director Lt. Gen. Heath Collins told CSIS that he is "absolutely" trying to speed development of the Glide Phase Interceptor, but that any changes must keep the program "viable."
MDA Chief Lt. Gen. Heath Collins said more maneuverable missiles and drones have changed the missile defense game: Instead of just preparing to hit “fastballs,” he said, “now we’re hitting sliders and curveballs.”
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
MDA Chief Lt. Gen. Heath Collins told lawmakers the sharply accelerated schedule was a result of budget constraints paired with agency confidence in its "in-depth" knowledge of competitors Northrop and Lockheed's designs even before formal design review.
The Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile program, although nascent, is “going pretty well," program executive Brig. Gen. Heath Collins told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview.
In the FY22 omnibus spending bill revealed by Congress today, appropriators halved funding for the Air Force's flagship hypersonic missile program.
The Air Force still doesn't know what caused a December launch of the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon to fail, but it still has time to wrap up flight tests by the end of fiscal 2022, Brig. Gen. Heath Collins said.
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The new simulation environment will use 'digital twins' to rapidly test and iterate "collaborative autonomous networked technologies," AFRL explains.