Five Types of International Cooperation for Missile Defense
The United States has long worked with its allies on missile defense cooperation. Yet as missile threats proliferate, cooperation is increasingly important.
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Offense–Defense Integration for Missile Defeat
Improved ODI would go a long way to countering modern missile threats. This report examines its benefits, challenges, and the possible road ahead.
Countering Missile Threats Means Addressing the Present While Planning for the Future
Absent any effort to expand or modernize GMD, homeland missile defense will likely fall behind current threats while NGI matures.
MDA Chooses Lockheed Martin to Develop Homeland Defense Radar
On December 18, U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded Lockheed Martin a $585 million contract to design, develop, and deliver the Homeland Defense Radar – Hawaii (HDR-H). According to the contract statement, the radar will provide “autonomous acquisition and persistent precision tracking and discrimination to optimize the defensive capability of the BMDS and other evolving...
DoD Audit Finds Cybersecurity Failures in BMDS
On December 10, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector General released a report, detailing cybersecurity shortcomings of the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). The audit found that the system’s software and hardware are at risk of being attacked or infiltrated to gain access to classified information. In the report, the Inspector General noted...
Missile Defense and Defeat: Considerations for the New Policy Review
The national defense authorization act signed into law in 2016 contained a provision mandating a review of missile defeat policy, strategy, and capability, to be completed and submitted to Congress by January 2018...
How It Works: Midcourse Discrimination (Video)
Hit-to-kill ballistic missile defense is the ultimate precision guidance challenge. Many elements of a defense must come together to achieve a long range intercept. One of the most important and difficult parts is known as mid-course discrimination. Watch the Video After a ballistic missile launches, its engines burn hot and can be detected by infrared...