Game Changers

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Defensive coordination and using all your assets together to defeat an opponent is complex, challenging and critically important to being successful not just once, but consistently over time.

SMDC’s control of space vital to Army’s warfighters

The Army Space and Missile Defense Command is known for leading-edge research and running technologically advanced programs and systems.

Missile Defense Agency Small Business Programs Conference in Huntsville July 20-21

The conference is an opportunity to learn from Missile Defense Agency managers about what's happening in the agency, and to network with prime contractors and other businesses, said Lee Rosenberg, director of MDA's Office of Small Business Programs, talking in his office on Redstone Arsenal on July 1, 2011 . (The Huntsville Times/Glenn Baeske)

The Missile Defense Agency is a big organization with an even bigger mission – defending the homeland, our forward-deployed troops and allies against ballistic missile attacks.
But big MDA depends on the power inherent in small business to accomplish its goals, said Lee Rosenberg, director of the Office of Small Business Programs, in the agency’s offices on Redstone Arsenal.

Raytheon breaking ground today for missile facility on Redstone Arsenal

On Redstone Arsenal, the plant will be near the offices of the Missile Defense Agency and other customers, and there is already an infrastructure used in integrating large-scale rocket and propulsion systems and the explosive materials they use, he said. The area has a talented workforce and state training programs that will allow employees to come on board ready to work; connections with the University of Alabama in Huntsville and other area institutions for other workforce development and training; and more.

QinetiQ to continue research on Army air- and missile-defense network-centric computer designs

Researchers at the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) at Redstone, Arsenal, Ala., say they intend to award a potential $40 million five-year contract to QinetiQ North America in Huntsville, Ala., to develop and evaluate new ground-based missile- and air-defense systems architectures in the Architecture Characterization Program (A2CP).

Work Could Soon Begin on Raytheon Missile Plant at Redstone Arsenal

Work could soon begin on the Raytheon plant at Redstone Arsenal that will assemble and test the company’s SM-3 and SM-6 “Standard Missiles.”

The company announced plans for the 70,000-square-foot facility in last July. But, since the plant is on the Army’s Redstone Arsenal grounds – at the site of the former Morton Thiokol facilities – the negotiations and agreements involve a number of entities, said Wes Kremer, Raytheon’s SM-3 program director.

“We are making significant progress,” he said in a telephone interview last week. “In the very near future we will be announcing the groundbreaking ceremony on that. We’re very anxious to move ahead with that.”

Redstone’s Pacific Interests Unharmed by Tsunami

Redstone Arsenal’s U.S. Army personnel stationed in Japan, Hawaii, Kwajalein and other Pacific locations have reported no injuries or severe damage from the earthquake and tsunami that struck today.

In addition, it appears the worst damage occurred on Japan’s northwest coast, with the nation’s primary tourism areas not in danger.

Huntsville firm gets $209 million contract

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – A Huntsville safety engineering company has been awarded a contract worth more than $209 million from the Missile Defense Agency and will add more than 100 jobs.

APT Research is one of three winners for the Missile Defense Agency engineering and support services contract to provide engineering support services to the Redstone Arsenal-based MDA. APT’s award is for quality, safety and mission assurance support.

APT, which was founded in 1990, has 75 employees at sites in Research Park, as well as Cocoa Beach, Fla.; Yuma, Ariz.; and White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico.

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