"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."
NGI kicked off in 2019 after the cancellation of an earlier $5.8 billion plan to replace the existing Exo-Atmospheric Kill Vehicle, which defends the US mainland against long-range ballistic missile attacks.
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
“The real differentiator here is the acquisition strategy, with a lot of competition -- a lot of ‘fly before you buy’ -- built in,” CSIS' Tom Karako says. “The relatively longer NGI development timeline for homeland ballistic missile defense can be mitigated by near-term improvements” in ground missile defense.
There have been questions about the Biden Administration's missile defense plan; some of those may be answered in coming weeks
Smart tools and emerging technologies can deliver the Next-Gen Interceptor more affordably and faster than any other missile defense system.
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.
Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
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.
"If they tried that, I'd expect to see a bipartisan display of pitchforks on Capitol Hill, and the likeness of certain DoD officials burned in effigy," said one expert of any move to disband MDA.
The 2020 mandates an independent study of whether MDA should be moved from R&E to the purview of Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (A&S) Ellen Lord.
DoD goes back to the drawing board to replace its missile interceptors. Can they make it work this time?
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]