US Invites Russia to Witness AMD Tests

Washington has encouraged Russia’s military technicians to track its AMD missile launches in spring 2012.

Missile Defense Agency celebrates opening of Von Braun III building on Redstone Arsenal

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Lt. Gen. Patrick O’Reilly said it’s appropriate that the Missile Defense Agency’s new six-story office center on Redstone Arsenal is part of a complex named for Dr. Wernher von Braun, whose team based in Huntsville put the nation’s first satellite and astronaut in orbit and the first men on the moon.

THAAD Initial Operational Test and Evaluation Conducted

The BMDS Operational Test Agency (OTA) conducted, with support of the Missile Defense Agency, an operational test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) on Oct. 5, 2011, 1:56 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii.

MDA Ground Test Demonstrates Phased Adaptive Approach

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) successfully completed a ground test involving several distributed Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) elements. Data collected during the test, conducted September 12-16, demonstrated BMDS Phase 1 capabilities of the Phased Adaptive Approach to defend European allies and deployed forces from ballistic missile threats by simultaneously executing multiple theater engagements.

Northrop Grumman Gets New Missile Defence Contract

Under this new contract from the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), the defense contract giant Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) will perform manufacturing and production readiness systems engineering for MDA’s Precision Tracking Space System (PTSS).

Lockheed Working on BMD Tracker System

 

 

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 21 (UPI) — Lockheed Martin says it’s leveraging its satellite and missile defense expertise for the Precision Tracking Space System for ballistic missile defense.

Lockheed Martin Wins $115M Contract for Missile from MDA

       

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is announcing the award of a sole source cost-plus-award-fee/cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors, Moorestown, New Jersey, under the HQ0276-10-C-0003 contract, P00019.

SAIC Awarded Contract by U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA)

MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today it was awarded a competitive indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to provide advisory and analytical services in support of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). The multiple-award contract has a five year period of performance with a not to exceed ordering contract ceiling value of $281 million for all awardees, if all options are exercised. Work will be performed primarily in Huntsville, Ala.

El Paso Native Selected for Promotion to Major General

An El Paso native whose Army career is opening doors for women in the service has been nominated for promotion to major general, the Defense Department announced on Wednesday.

Tobyhanna Strong On Radar Support

In the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, a large, white radome dominates the high ground at Tobyhanna Army Depot symbolizing the growing number of radars and sensors that depot personnel maintain for the military.

Luis Velez, left, and John Radzikowski set up a Lightweight Counter Mortar Radar system for rotation testing in an anechoic test chamber. Tobyhanna Army Depot employees conduct full organic repair on the entire AN/TPQ-48 LCMR system.

Radars at Tobyhanna run the gamut from Air Defense, Air Traffic Control, Ground Surveillance, Airborne, Shipborne, Range Threat systems and critical Counter Fire systems, supporting the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy.