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Missile Defense
Boeing Wins $2.7 Billion In PAC-3 Seeker Production Contracts, Lockheed Martin And Diehl Make A Deal
Boeing [BA] on Tuesday announced it won a series of multiyear contracts worth $2.7 billion total to produce more Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) seekers. Boeing produces the seekers under prime […]
AEI Releases Space-Based Interceptor Calculator, Costs Can Balloon Into Trillions For Larger Constellations
An American Enterprise Institute (AEI) official created an interactive Space-Based Interceptor (SBI) Calculator to help show how the government’s design choices can vastly affect system cost, size and performance as […]
MDA Extends Golden Dome SHIELD Solicitation Due To Heavy Interest
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on October 2 extended the submission period for responses for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) […]
Lockheed Martin Starts Land-Based Testing Of Japan’s Aegis Ship SPY-7 Radar
Lockheed Martin [LMT] started initial light off ground-based testing for the Japan-bound Aegis System Equipped Vessel (ASEV)’s shipset 1 SPY-7 radar system on schedule, the company announced Tuesday. The testing […]
Kratos Says It Completed PDR in April for SDA’s Advanced Fire Control Ground Integration Program
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. [KTOS] said on Monday that it finished the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Advanced Fire Control Ground Integration (AFCGI) […]
USAF Considers Upgrades for Cobra King Missile Defense Radar
The U.S. Air Force is mulling upgrades to the Cobra King X-band and S-band radar for the U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command’s USNS Howard O. Lorenzen (T-AGM-25) by Bollinger Shipyards. […]
This Week in Deterrence (September 15-19, 2025)
We are seeing a shift of the forces reshaping deterrence across domains. Paramount is the urgency of integrating allied doctrine, accelerating resilient capabilities, and rigorously testing new systems to ensure credibility against adversaries. The future of deterrence will be secured not by isolated efforts, but by cohesive, rapid, and deliberate action. Bottom line: The center […]
This Week in Deterrence (September 15-19, 2025) was originally published on Global Security Review.
L3Harris Talks Alignment with Outline for Golden Dome
U.S. Space Force systems may account for two-thirds of DoD spending on an extensive Golden Dome missile defense architecture, according to an American Enterprise Institute report this month, as DoD […]
White House comes out against Senate FY26 NDAA language on DoD spectrum rights
Section 1564 would give the Joint Chiefs of Staff the right to nix changes to military systems that would be required to comply with planned spectrum sharing plans.