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SAN DIEGO– Two Navy researchers last month outlined some major limitations on adding and using hypersonic weapons., focused on physics limitations combined with expense. “So there is an advantage to speed. They also help survivability, [but also] they&…
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is seeking industry comments on why a solicitation for a contract to design, develop, test and field the next Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Weapon System (GWS) only received one bid so it can improve the process …
The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine demonstrates the strategic shift in air warfare from direct attacks by bombers to standoff attacks using missiles. The ground-based air defenses have yet to embrace this change.
The post The Changing Landscape…
The latest annual report by the Pentagon’s top weapons tester said while the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) systems have largely demonstrated several capabilities the biggest challenge is the need for realistic and emerging threat representations in te…
More than four years after the Department of the Air Force decided to recompete the sustainment of the Raytheon Technologies [RTX] AN/FPS-108 Cobra Dane radar, the U.S. Space Force last week issued a new solicitation. The contractor chosen under the ne…
The U.S. Space Force this week issued a solicitation to sustain the Raytheon Technologies [RTX] AN/FPS-108 Cobra Dane radar. The chosen contractor will aid the program office at Peterson Space Force Base, Colo. for life-cycle management of Cobra Dane, …
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded Raytheon Techologies’ [RTX] Intelligence & Space and Boeing’s [BA] Millennium Space Systems $605 million to design, build and deliver the first two prototype Missile Track Custody spa…
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a n undefinitized contract action (UCA) on Dec. 28 worth up to $528 million to expand performance of the Aegis Weapon System for air and missile defense capabilities in Guam. This award inc…
Raytheon Techologies’ [RTX] Intelligence & Space and Boeing’s [BA] Millennium Space Systems–both in El Segundo, Calif.–are to begin building the first prototype Missile Track Custody (MTC) Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Overhead P…