By Emelie Rutherford The dynamics of Congress' approach to missile defense has changed, with Democrats acting more accepting of national missile defense than in the past, yet also showing reticence toward longer-term options, a senior Senate Armed Services Committee staff member said. The ...
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By Emelie Rutherford The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is looking for savings within its forthcoming longterm budget request so it can seek funds to double the number of Aegis Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors in the coming years, the agency's ...
Missile Defense Agency Tests A Plane-Based Missile Defense System Obering Seeks U.S.-European Missile Defense Test Area; U.S., NATO Radar Systems Swap Data; More Links Seen Shifting interceptors for a proposed European Missile Defense (EMD) system from Poland to Lithuania would leave them still ...
Interceptors in the planned European Missile Defense (EMD) system can be deployed on time in 2013 if Congress provides sufficient funding, though any requirement that a test- article interceptor be launched first might slow progress in the program, Lt. Gen. Henry "Trey" Obering III, the ...
A clear trend is emerging that rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea are in "a sprint, not a marathon," racing to develop ICBMs that could be tipped with nuclear weapons, a general said last week. Therefore, it is crucial to counter rising Iranian missile capabilities by installing a missile ...
NASA last week gave Oceaneering International Inc. of Houston a contract worth up to $745.9 million to design, develop and produce a new spacesuit for orbital and lunar operations. Subcontractors are Air-Lock Inc. of Milford, Conn., David Clark Co. of Worcester, Mass., Cimarron Software Services ...
By Dave Ahearn A clear trend is emerging that rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea are in "a sprint, not a marathon," racing to develop ICBMs that could be tipped with nuclear weapons, a general said last week. Therefore, it is crucial to counter rising Iranian missile capabilities by ...
NASA Discusses Possible Manned Commercial Flights To Transport Crew To International Space Station Talks Commence On International Participation In U.S. Orion-Ares Missions To Moon, And Japan Also Hopes For Its Own Manned Lunar Mission Space Shuttle Discovery wrapped up the two-week STS-124 Mission ...
A clear trend is emerging that rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea are in "a sprint, not a marathon," racing to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that could be tipped with nuclear weapons, a general said yesterday. Therefore, it is crucial to counter rising Iranian missile ...
But Combatant Commanders Would Retain Power To Execute Missile Kills In Their Regions Allied Nations Also Should Be Linked To BMD The multi-layered global ballistic missile defense (BMD) shield should have better links, and those links should be automatic, "machine to machine," rather ...