Foreign Interference. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence last Friday issued a new statement assessing unclassified foreign threats to the 2020 U.S. election that analyze the interests of China, Russian and Iran in the outcomes. No surprise, Russia still favors President Trump. � ...
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A delayed Missile Defense Agency (MDA) intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test using the Standard Missile (SM)-3 Block IIA is now set and planned to occur before the end of the year. Flight Test Maritime (FTM)-44 was first scheduled to occur in May, but in April the agency announced most ...
A recent U.S. Air Force contract with small satellite company BlackSky Global LLC to monitor how COVID-19 is affecting military supply chains shows the promise of artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-enabled geospatial intelligence but also the challenges ahead for DoD in heading off ...
Air Force and Navy service members aboard an airplane on Tuesday remotely launched a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile with three unarmed warheads from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. “A joint team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen and Navy sailors launched an ...
The commander of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said the Pentagon is finally getting close to completing military construction on the Poland Aegis Ashore site, expecting to have it ready by 2022 after further delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’re getting very, very close to completing ...
Lockheed Martin [LMT] said Monday it has put in a bid to compete for the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) missile defense program and is working to avoid the pitfalls of the previous Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) program. “We are excited to confirm we are putting in a bid for the Next ...
Air Force Lt. Gen. Glen VanHerck, the nominee to head U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on July 28 that he shares the desire of Air Force Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy, the current commander, to accelerate the fielding of ...
An annual audit of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) recommended it use an independent assessment of the process for developing and executing the annual missile defense system flight test plan after finding only 37 percent of tests occurred on schedule over the last decade. The GAO’s annual ...
According to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) was warned numerous times about problems with the now-canceled Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) program as costs more than tripled before it was terminated. “MDA and contractors did not adequately ...
The head of Indo-Pacific Command (INDO-PACOM) on Tuesday said getting an Aegis Ashore missile defense system on Guam by 2026 is his number one priority to help defend against future Chinese capabilities. “I will say that my number one priority and the most important action we can take to rapidly ...