CSC Wins $80 Million Missile Defense Agency Task Order

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded CSC a task order to provide systems engineering support for all MDA-funded ballistic missile defense systems.

MDAA Breaking News

Dear Members and Friends, The following is an excerpt from Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s major foreign policy speech delivered this morning, October 7th, at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.

IDF Plan Targets New Threats

With much of the Middle East in turmoil, new realities are emerging for Israel and her neighbors, reshaping the strategic environment that has remained nearly constant for more than 30 years, since the 1979 peace accord with Egypt.

U.S. Navy’s AMDR Program Sets Big Goals

Aviation Week reports:

Northrop Grumman and Raytheon see the U.S. Navy’s Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) program as a way to break the stranglehold Lockheed Martin’s Aegis system has on naval integrated ship and ballistic missile defense (BMD). But Lockheed Martin believes the five-decade-long Aegis pedigree should make the company the front-runner for AMDR.

USS Monterey to Deploy Monday

The Navy announced Thursday that the guided missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) is scheduled to depart Naval Station Norfolk on Monday for a six-month independent deployment to the 6th Fleet area of responsibility.

The ship’s mission will include providing regional ballistic missile defense (BMD), the first step in the development of a broad anti-ballistic missile system to protect Europe against a potential Iranian nuclear threat, the Pentagon said earlier this week.

U.S.-Polish Missile Shield Collaboration Moves Ahead

Poland and the United States on Friday pledged to continue plans for collaboration on ballistic missile defense, even after the Obama administration drastically altered the U.S. approach for a Europe-based shield.

The Bush administration had planned to deploy 10 long-range missile interceptors in Poland and a radar base in the Czech Republic to help protect Europe and the United States from missiles fired by nations such as Iran. Its successor replaced that initiative with the “phased adaptive approach” that focuses on fielding sea- and land-based versions of the Standard Missile 3 around Europe over a period of years as a hedge against Iranian short- and medium-range missiles. 

The document signed last week in Krakow revises the U.S.-Polish agreement to fit Washington’s revised policy.

MDAA Press Release: Top Missile Defense Expert States that SM-3 System is Fully Capable

Riki Ellison, Founder and Chairman of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), has commented on the current status of the SM3- system and states that the system is fully capable. Ellison is one of the top foremost lay experts in the field of missile defense in the world. His comments include the following:

“The SM-3 Block 1A is certified by the Department of Defense to engage short-range missiles of the SCUD A & B, the No-Dong type missile and their separating targets (warheads); absent the presence of countermeasures.

A Missile Defense Goal That Never Was

Senator DeMint attacks the New START Treaty on the grounds that it prohibits efficient and global ballistic missile defense. Senator Kerry responded by saying that the United States should not deploy ballistic missile defense to the point where it would render ballistic missile obsolete.

WASHINGTON — The sharpest exchange at this week’s Senate hearing on President Obama’s new arms control treaty with Russia came when Senator Jim DeMint went on the attack.

START places no limit on US missile defense: Clinton, Gates

Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense both assure Senate Foreign Relations Committee that linkage between offensive strategic weapons and missile defense will not limit current ballistic missile defense of the United States. However, so far they did not adequately address the question of future ballistic missile defense system and entirely different interpretations by Russian Federation.

WASHINGTON — The new START arms control treaty imposes no limits on US missile defense weapons despite concerns voiced by Russia, President Barack Obama’s deputies told lawmakers on Tuesday.

Missile Defenders Blast Critics After Interceptor Attack

Another opinion on exchange between Mr. Postol, an MIT physicist, and Mr. Lehner from Missile Defense Agency regarding the ability of Standard Missile-3 to shoot down incoming ballistic missiles and conditions of under which tests are evaluated as successful.

The Missile Defense Agency, the Pentagon directorate charged with developing anti-missile technology, might want to consider a new line of defense: Intercepting articles by critic Theodore Postol before they land in reporters’ inboxes.