Latest Missile Defense Agency Stories

New C2BMC Capabilities Provide More Realistic Training for Operational Exercises ARLINGTON, Va., May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has completed a program milestone for the integrating system that links the numerous sensors, weapons and systems currently operational in the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System. The Lockheed Martin-led Missile Defense National Team successfully completed the preliminary design review for a major upgrade to the training component...

ATK's Third Stage Rocket Motor (TSRM) Provides Critical Capability and Mission Flexibility for the Standard Missile-3 Interceptor ARLINGTON, Va., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ATK (NYSE: ATK), the nation's leading solid rocket motor producer, provided critical components for the recent successful Flight Test Mission-19 (FTM-19) missile defense test involving a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB guided missile. The SM-3 was launched from a U.S. Navy Aegis Cruiser off the coast of...

KAUAI, Hawaii, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) second-generation Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system achieved its fourth intercept since May 2012. The system successfully launched and guided a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB missile to engage a sophisticated, separating short-range ballistic missile target. During the Missile Defense Agency test, U.S. Navy sailors aboard USS Lake Erie (CG-70) used the Aegis BMD Weapon System in an operational...

PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, KAUAI, Hawaii, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) Standard Missile-3 Block IB fired from the USS Lake Erie destroyed a complex, separating short-range ballistic missile target with a sophisticated separating mock warhead. Despite stressing conditions designed to challenge the missile's discrimination capabilities, the SM-3 successfully engaged the target using the sheer kinetic force of a massive collision in space....

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have successfully tested a prototype air-launched Extended Medium-range Ballistic Missile (eMRBM) target at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. In the test, a full-scale prototype of the eMRBM target was released from the cargo bay of a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft at 25,000 feet. The system's parachutes deployed, and the prototype successfully separated from the carriage...

DALLAS, April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) PAC-3 Missile successfully detected, tracked and intercepted a tactical ballistic missile (TBM) in a Lower Tier Project Office flight test today at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. Two PAC-3 Missiles were ripple-fired in the test per current doctrine. The first interceptor destroyed the target and the second PAC-3 Missile self-destructed as planned. Mission objectives were focused on reducing risk for a flight test...

Riki Ellison, Chairman and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), http://www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org, comments on the announcement of the THAAD Battery’s forward deployment to Guam. Ellison is one of the top experts in missile defense in the world and his comments and observations are below: Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) April 08, 2013 Riki Ellison, Chairman and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), http://www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org, comments on the...

DALLAS, March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Extended Area Protection and Survivability (EAPS) program successfully conducted the first Guided Test Flight to characterize the seeker, guidance, navigation and control systems of its Miniature Hit-to-Kill (MHTK) interceptor. The very small and agile interceptor is designed to defeat Rocket, Artillery and Mortar (RAM) targets at ranges greatly exceeding those of current systems. The test was conducted on March 22...

TEWKSBURY, Mass., March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) delivered its eighth AN/TPY-2 radar to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) in support of the U.S. combatant commands. An integral capability of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS), AN/TPY-2 is a mobile, X-band phased-array radar that helps protect the U.S., deployed forces, and America's friends and allies by searching, acquiring and tracking threat ballistic missiles and discriminating between threats...

HONOLULU, Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Riki Ellison, Chairman and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org, comments on the last night's successful SM-3 Block IA intercept. Ellison is one of the top lay experts on missile defense in the world. On a dark night, with stars sparkling high above the shores of the Hawaiian Islands, at 11:10 p.m., a two-stage unified non separating target missile representing a Scud-B medium-range...