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Missile Defense Agency - Open Encyclopedia The Missile Defense Agency is the section of Department of Defense responsible for developing a layered defense against ballistic missiles. Missile defense systems being developed and tested by MDA are primarily based on hit-to-kill technology. Using complementary interceptors, land-, sea-, air- and space-based sensors, and battle management command and control systems, the planned missile defense system will be able to engage all classes and ranges of ballistic missile threats. open-encyclopedia.com /Missile_Defense_Agency   (384 words)

Missile Defense Agency On 2 January 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld issued a memo creating the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The new agency, whose director will report directly to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, is assigned to streamline the Pentagon's missile defense research and development program with a focus on block upgrades and system deployment. Secondly, MDA is to deploy a layered missile defense shield that will have the capability to intercept missiles during the boost, midcourse, and terminal phases of their flights. www.fas.org /ssp/bmd/mda.html   (403 words)

Encyclopedia: United States Department of Defense The Office of the Secretary of Defense Identification Badge is a U.S. military badge of the Department of Defense issued to members of the U.S. military who are permanently assigned as military aides to the Secretary of Defense in the Department of Defense. The Department of Defense is based in The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia outside Washington, DC, across the Potomac River. The command structure of the Department of Defense is defined by the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/United-States-Department-of-Defense   (4206 words)

National Missile Defense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia On 24 February 2005, the Missile Defense Agency, testing the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, successfully intercepted a mock enemy missile. National Missile Defense (NMD) is a military strategy that has been discussed in the United States since the 1960s. Clinton's War on Missile Defense - A conservative critique of missile defense opposition. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Missile_Defense   (1898 words)

NDM Article - Missile Defense Agency Prepares For Key Flight Tests in 2005 The agency has been under increasing pressure from Congress to prove the worth and efficacy of missile defense programs, for which the Bush administration requested $10 billion for fiscal year 2005. Ronald Kadish, the head of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency, is planning an aggressive push to get programs tested by 2005. MDA also is trying to accelerate the deployment of a sea-based missile defense system. www.nationaldefensemagazine.org /issues/2004/Jun/Missile_Defense.htm   (749 words)

DoD News: DoD Establishes Missile Defense Agency Elevating BMDO to agency status recognizes the national priority and mission emphasis on missile defense. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld announced this week the redesignation of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) as the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The MDA is charged with developing the missile defense system and baselining the capability and configuration of its elements. www.defenselink.mil /releases/2002/b01042002_bt008-02.html   (360 words)

CNN.com - Missile misses target, officials call it a success - Jun. 19, 2003 The MDA program came under scrutiny earlier this month from two Democratic senators who said the agency is in danger of getting off track, and its efforts impaired, because of President Bush's order for the Pentagon to begin fielding a missile defense capability by 2004. The Missile Defense Agency conducted a missile defense test over Hawaii Wednesday, and while the warhead did not strike the target, officials said they still considered the exercise a success. The MDA and the Navy manage the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Program, and Raytheon Missile Systems is the prime contractor for the SM-3 missile, the Defense Department said. www.cnn.com /2003/US/West/06/19/missle.defense.test   (451 words)

NDM Article - Missile Defense Agency Prepares To Deploy Interceptor Weapons The Missile Defense Agency is pressing ahead with plans to begin deploying a controversial and expensive system to protect the United States and allies against ballistic missiles. A missile defense system is necessary to protect the United States and its friends against a growing ballistic missile threat, he said. In November, the agency was scheduled to place a sixth ground-based, mid-course interceptor missile into its underground silo at Fort Greely, Alaska. www.nationaldefensemagazine.org /issues/2004/Dec/MissileDefenseAgencyPrepares.htm   (563 words)

DoD News: Missile Defense Agency Booster Rocket Program MDA is currently finalizing its evaluation of potential impacts to the overall missile defense development program, but for the near-term, the program most affected is a booster rocket for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). MDA remains committed to a dual-booster strategy, and will continue to work closely with Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Orbital Sciences to ensure effective, high-performance launch vehicles are available for operations and testing of the GMD element in order to provide an active defense against long-range missile attack. The other two missile defense components affected by the accidents are the Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), a ground-based interceptor missile being developed for the Army, and the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) sea-based interceptor now in development for use by the Navy aboard Aegis-class warships. www.dod.gov /releases/2003/nr20031107-0626.html   (443 words)

Aerospace Daily STORY MDA terminated RAMOS because it was concerned the program would be too expensive to complete, but the agency pledged instead to explore a "broad range" of new joint missile defense projects with Russia (DAILY, Feb. 4). MDA is looking for ways to continue missile defense cooperation with Russia following the agency's recent decision to cancel the Russian-American Observation Satellite (RAMOS) program, a joint effort between the two countries to provide Russia with new early-warning satellite technology. MDA also is interested in benefiting from Russia's know-how in producing targets for missile defense tests, but Weldon said Moscow is unlikely to be satisfied with such a role. www.aviationnow.com /avnow/news/channel_aerospacedaily_story.jsp?id=news/russ05134.xml   (343 words)

Yorkshire CND - Missile Defense Agency Eyeing Space-Based Interceptor Test Bed By 2012 - 15/9/04 MDA has issued environmental assessments of individual programs that make up the envisioned ballistic missile defense system, such as the Airborne Laser and the ground-based midcourse program, but until now the agency had not compiled one that covers all of the elements working together, an MDA spokesman told Inside Missile Defense last week. By 2012, the Missile Defense Agency wants to develop a space-based test bed that could demonstrate the ability of kinetic-energy interceptors to destroy ballistic missiles in their initial boost phase, according to an environmental assessment the agency released last week. Yorkshire CND - Missile Defense Agency Eyeing Space-Based Interceptor Test Bed By 2012 - 15/9/04 www.cndyorks.gn.apc.org /yspace/articles/bmd/mda_sbi_test_bed.htm   (733 words)

A Hole in Our Missile Defense System In May of 2000 I wrote a letter to the White House that described how the Missile Defense Agency had doctored results of National Missile Defense tests to hide the fact that they could not tell the difference between simple decoys and warheads. If you're the US Missile Defense Agency, you'd classify the data about missile defense tests to hide this fatal flaw. Because the missile defense is essentially using vision to tell which objects are decoys and which are bombs, this technique is no more effective than trying to find suitcase bombs at an airport by studying the shape and color of each suitcase. www.commondreams.org /views02/0615-02.htm   (893 words)

Missile Defense Agency set to deploy new radar technology Missile defense has two major components—sensors and missiles—and Obering said the agency has made strides in both areas. HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—Despite budget cuts and military-base realignments, the Missile Defense Agency is making progress in developing technology to intercept in-flight ballistic missiles directed against the United States, the agency’s director said. He was speaking at the 8th annual Space and Missile Defense Conference and a follow-up press briefing. www.gcn.com /24_25/dodcomputing/36767-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS   (374 words)

Missile Defense Agency (MDA) FY04 Solicitation Topics MDA intends for Phase I to be only an examination of the merit of the concept or technology that still involves technical risk, with a cost not exceeding $100,000. MDA04-T023                        Low-cost, multi-spectral frequency augmenter for exo-atmospheric ballistic missile targets PHASE III:  If Phase II achievements are substantial, the contractor will transition their kill vehicle concept in coordination with a selected prime contractor. www.acq.osd.mil /sadbu/sbir/solicitations/sttr04/mda04.htm   (6182 words)

Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: Debunking the Missile Defense Agency’s The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has become increasingly averse to providing detailed reports to Congress or the public on the progress of U.S. missile defense programs. Kadish claims that, of the 25 missile defense tests in which the interceptor reached the endgame, the target was hit 22 times, for a success rate of 88 percent. Unfortunately, close examination of statements by MDA officials, who have been arguing that the test record for hit-to-kill missile defenses shows that such systems will work, demonstrates that the Pentagon has been less than forthright about its successes and failures. www.armscontrol.org /act/2002_12/lewisgronlund_dec02.asp   (1934 words)

Online NewsHour: Missile Defense -- September 21, 2004 The missile defense agency is building a floating radar station the size of two football fields to track enemy missiles. In a speech at the National Defense University, President Bush said is was time to leave behind Cold War nuclear strategies and develop a missile defense system. The defender, the defending missile system, has known exactly when the enemy missile surrogate was launched, has known what the trajectory was going to be. www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/military/july-dec04/missile_9-21.html   (1583 words)

My Way - News The system could be used with other missile defense components, including a ground-based mid-course defense designed to guard the United States against long-range ballistic missile attacks. President Bush has ordered a Pacific missile defense "testbed" be fielded by Sept. 30, 2004, partly to thwart a perceived threat from North Korea. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A missile from a U.S. Navy Aegis cruiser shattered a dummy warhead over the Pacific on Thursday, the fourth intercept in five tests of the sea-based leg of a planned multi-layered missile shield, the Pentagon said. news.myway.com /top/article/id/372563top12-11-2003::17:05reuters.html   (455 words)

"BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE" - U.S. Foreign Policy Agenda, July 2002, Department of State, International Information Programs The primary elements of the MDS are the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) and the Sea-Based Midcourse Defense (SMD), which are the successors to the National Missile Defense and Navy Theater Wide programs. The program will increase system robustness by incrementally deploying layered defenses that use complementary interceptors, sensors, and battle management and command-and-control (BMC2) systems to provide multiple engagement opportunities against threatening targets in boost, mid-course, and terminal phases of flight. Intercepting a missile in its boost phase is the ideal solution for a ballistic missile defense. usinfo.state.gov /journals/itps/0702/ijpe/martin.htm   (1629 words)

V-2 missile --  Encyclopædia Britannica Organization engaged in the development of missile defense for the United States. Ballistic missiles are rocket-propelled weapons that travel by momentum in a high, arcing trajectory after they have been... The precursor of modern ballistic missiles was the German V-2, a single-stage, fin-stabilized missile propelled by liquid oxygen and ethyl alcohol to a maximum range of about 200 miles. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9074599   (749 words)

Nukes Nuclear bombs Missile Defense ICBMs The missile is ejected from the silo by a cold gas generator which lofts the missile tens ofm into the air before the main engines ignite. Guidance is similar to the air-launched cruise missile, with terrain contour matching (tercom) in which the missile has a digital map of the terrain it is to fly over, and follows it at low altitude to the target. All 500 missiles will be deployed in existing silos (hardened to withstand an estimated 2,000lb per square inch blast overpressure, little protection against today's more accurate missiles) in the interior of the country. www.danshistory.com /nuke.shtml   (5640 words)

The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town For the past three years, officials at the Missile Defense Agency have worked overtime to create a system that they say will neutralize a missile threat from North Korea. As envisaged by the Bush Administration, the system is to eventually include two satellites (one in high orbit, one in low) to assist in the early detection of missile launches, track missiles, and help guide interceptors to their targets. Yet Bush promised to develop the system in his last campaign, and in December, 2002, a year after the Administration announced that it would withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, he ordered that deployment take place in 2004. www.newyorker.com /talk/content?041004ta_talk_fitzgerald   (851 words)

Missile Defense Agency Awards Countermeasures Contract To Lockheed "Due to the technical advances that are sure to be part of ballistic missile proliferation worldwide, it is vital that the United States conduct ground and flight tests against these targets and countermeasures to ensure our missile defense technologies stay ahead of those of our adversaries," said the agency in a Dec. 9 statement. WASHINGTON — The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has chosen Lockheed Martin to develop new targets and countermeasures under a contract potentially worth $4.6 billion over 10 years. Realistic test targets are a key to the future success of the program, said the Missile Defense Agency. www.space.com /spacenews/archive03/mdaarch_122303.html   (375 words)

Missile Defense - Center for Defense Information This weapon uses a hit-to-kill warhead to intercept enemy missiles and is being lauded by some as a litmus test for the effectiveness of missile defense in general. Analysis of statements on missile defense made by administration officials and their impact on expectations for the success of missile defense programs. President Reagan spoke repeatedly about his intent to share missile defense technology with the Soviet Union as a means that could ultimately lead to the elimination of offensive strategic ballistic missiles, a position reiterated by President Bush leading up to the St. Petersburg summit. www.cdi.org /missile-defense   (1678 words)

DoD News: Missile Defense Agency Conducts Flight Mission 4 The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the U.S. Navy are scheduled to conduct Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Flight Mission 4 (FM-4) flight test on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2002 off Hawaii. The test involves the firing of a developmental Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) from the Aegis ballistic missile defense cruiser USS Lake Erie, and the launch of a ballistic missile target from the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Kauai, Hawaii. News media points of contact are Chris Taylor, MDA External Affairs, at (571) 232-0882 (cell) or (703) 697-8001, in Hawaii; or Maj. Cathy Reardon (703) 697-8491, or Cheryl Irwin, Office of the Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) at (703) 697-5331. www.dod.gov /advisories/2002/p11202002_p185-02.html   (316 words)

Missile Defense Agency Confusing Video Games with Reality The recent demonstration to journalists by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) of its missile defense simulation software was a misleading exercise that failed to address key issues about the limitations of computer simulation, especially at this stage of the test program. Second, the MDA argues that its computer simulation can accurately predict the reliability of its missile defense against a real-world attack—and that this is demonstrated by the program's ability to accurately model the trajectory of the missiles that the United Stated has used in its flight tests. Technical Realities: National Missile Defense Deployment in 2004 www.ucsusa.org /global_security/missile_defense/missile-defense-agency-confusing-video-games-with-reality.html   (334 words)

The Missile Defense Test That Wasn't The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency has demonstrated no capability to distinguish realistic decoys from warheads in the weightless environment of space, an essential requirement for the success of the ground- and sea-based elements of the system. The Pentagon says it will be employing an “evolutionary approach to the development of missile defenses over time,” and it envisions a layered system comprising ground-based and sea-based interceptors alongside upgraded versions of the short-range Patriot missile. During the previous test in 2002, the Pentagon's ground-based missile defense system attempted to intercept a mock warhead, but didn't get very far because the "kill vehicle" failed to separate from its booster. www.commondreams.org /views04/1219-28.htm   (918 words)

The Pentagon's Laughable Weapons Test - Fire missile. Miss target completely. Success! By Fred Kaplan It looked like a headline from the Onion, but it was from CNN and the story was real: "Missile Misses Target, Officials Call It a Success." The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency had conducted a test the afternoon of June 18. Call it "success." That's what happened, even though the point of missile defense is to intercept missiles. The missile missed its target by a long shot, but its firing mechanism worked, so the test was counted as a "success." www.slate.com /id/2084665   (709 words)

Boeing-led Industry Team and Missile Defense Agency Dedicate SBX passes data to elements of the ballistic missile defense system to f acilitate the interception of missiles by ground and/or sea-based interceptors. It will be capable of moving throughout the Pacific Ocean to support missile defense advanced testing and defensive operations. It is a leading provider of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems; the world's largest military aircraft manufacturer; the world's largest satellite manufacturer and a leading provider of space-based communications; the primary systems integrator for U.S. missile defense; NASA's largest contractor; and a global leader in sustainment solutions and launch services. www.boeing.com /news/releases/2005/q3/nr_050726n.html   (477 words)

The Marshall Institute - Missile Defense Agency Digest The Marshall Institute - Missile Defense Agency Digest They included a $250 million cut to the Transformational Communications Satellite, $236 million to the Joint Tactical Radio System, $100 million to the Future Combat System, $200 million to the Joint Unmanned Air Combat System, $126 million to the Space Based Radar and $111 to the Missile Defense Agency's Kinetic Energy Interceptors. Currently, the MDA is charged with identifying and developing the "what" of ballistic missile defense, according to Obering. www.marshall.org /article.php?id=307   (737 words)

NTI: Global Security Newswire The U.S. Missile Defense Agency said it plans to conduct an intercept test later this month of its sea-based midcourse missile defense project, one of several possible components of a U.S. missile defense system (see GSN, Sept. 3). The United States said it is enthusiastic to provide a missile defense system to prevent further missile proliferation in the area, according to the Times (Times of India, Nov. 5). Officials are developing the satellites through the Russian-American Observation Satellite (RAMOS) program created in 1992 to help facilitate U.S.-Russian missile defense cooperation. www.nti.org /d_newswire/issues/thisweek/2002_11_7_misd.html   (1649 words)

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