Answers at the edge: Where to find solutions that connect the battlespace
When it comes to a common operating picture, not everyone needs the same equipment. What they need is the same situational awareness.
“Today’s decision represents a turning point for hypersonic glide phase defense,” Lt. Gen. Heath Collins, MDA director, said in the announcement.
By Aaron Mehta
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.”
By Theresa Hitchens
Kazuya Yonekura, director of guided weapons project management division of the Japanese ministry of defense, spoke to Breaking Defense in Tokyo.
By Valerie Insinna
The Missile Defense Agency recently accelerated plans to pick a winning vendor, a decision previously planned for next year.
By Michael Marrow
The MDA request includes $105 million for the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR), slightly more than the $103.5 requested in FY24. LRDR, deemed a critical capability by US Northern Command (NORTHCOM)/NORAD leaders, will transfer to the Space Force to begin operations in FY25.
By Theresa Hitchens
An SDA official explained that the six “preliminary fire control” satellites in Tracking Layer Tranche 2 will carry a mix of wide-field-of-view and medium-field-of-view infrared cameras.
By Theresa Hitchens
Advances in radar are key to countering the modern drone warfare and missile threat
Drones, high-speed cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles attacking together from 360° creates complexity only certain radars can handle.
“The key word here is persistence,” study author Masao Dahlgren told Breaking Defense. “How do we get persistence over the regions we care about? That hasn’t been as explicitly put into prior work until now. This report puts into sharp relief.”
By Theresa Hitchens
Under its Glide Breaker project, DARPA wants to develop a prototype kill vehicle to intercept incoming hypersonic vehicles in their glide phase, before they begin high-speed maneuvers.
By Theresa Hitchens Washington and Tokyo hope to nail down co-funding details for the Glide Phase Interceptor by next year, according to a Pentagon spokesperson.
By Theresa Hitchens
MDA Acting Director Rear Adm. Doug Williams said that the agency’s plans include beginning tests of its Next-Generation Interceptor in 2027, “with the anticipation of operational testing of NGI at the end of 2029.”
By Theresa Hitchens
Russia since this spring has been using both newly minted cruise missiles and even hypersonic missiles in its war to annex Ukraine.
By Theresa Hitchens The draft National Space Authorization Act would also push Space Force on integrating commercial data and on over-classification of space programs.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Industry has told us that they they think they can go faster, and we’re hopeful that we can accelerate the program,” said Laura DeSimone, Missile Defense Agency executive director.
By Theresa Hitchens
Keeping the Glide Phase Interceptor program on track needs to be a priority for the new administration and Congress, writes former NORTHCOM officer Howard “Dallas” Thompson.
By Howard “Dallas” Thompson