Navy Vice Adm. James Syring, director of the Missile Defense Agency, has said the live-fire test of the U.S. ballistic missile defense platform seeks to demonstrate the country’s readiness to counter intercontinental ballistic
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Vice Adm. James Syring, director of the Missile Defense Agency, has said MDA aims to build advanced technology against ballistic missile threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, DoD News reported Thursday. Cheryl Pellerin writes
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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has conducted several monitoring efforts on its classified and unclassified networks in an effort to address potential cyber threats against MDA’s weapons programs, Reuters reported Thursday. Navy Vice
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Navy Vice Adm. James Syring, director of the Missile Defense Agency, has said MDA aims to begin flight tests of its modified kill vehicle in 2018 and field the platform by 2019, Space
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The Missile Defense Agency is planning to revive its airborne laser program using an unmanned aircraft armed with an electric-powered laser to counter ballistic missile threats, Breaking Defense reported Monday. Sydney Freedberg Jr.
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Vice Adm. James Syring, director of the Missile Defense Agency, has said MDA’s $8.1 billion fiscal 2016 budget proposal allocates money to build and maintain U.S. defense weapons, DoD News reported Wednesday.
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The Missile Defense Agency has requested $279 million in funding to design a new missile destroyer in an effort to enhance reliability of ground-based interceptors, Reuters reported Monday. Andrea Shalal writes the
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The Missile Defense Agency is considering plans to design a kill vehicle that would be based on the concepts of a legacy long-range interceptor program, Space News reported Monday. Mike Gruss writes that MDA has proposed revisions to the
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Navy Vice Adm. James Syring said the Missile Defense Agency plans to allocate $1.3 billion of its $7.46 billion budget request for fiscal year 2015 toward homeland defense, including a purchase of
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U.S. and Romanian defense leaders, as well as NATO officials helped break ground on a new missile defense complex in Romania Oct. 28 that is scheduled to become operational by the end
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