The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded Lockheed Martin a significant follow-on development contract for the Terminal ...

In a significant move to bolster the United States’ missile defense capabilities, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has ...

Read about the IDIQ follow-on contract MDA awarded to Lockheed for the development of the THAAD weapon system.

President Donald Trump has called for an expansive, next-generation missile defense shield for the mainland United States, ...

There are significant challenges to overcome if we are to deploy something similar to Israel’s acclaimed air defense network ...

Israel’s missile defense system is effective in close quarters. That model won’t help the U.S.

When it comes to protecting U.S. territory from missiles fired by such nuclear-powered countries as Russia, China, and North ...

This new initiative expands upon decades of U.S. missile defense efforts, building on technologies from the Reagan-era ...

As Secretary Hegseth takes the reins of the Pentagon, he said one of his priorities would be an effort to create an “iron dome” missile defense system to protect the United States, like the one ...

Work done in the Reagan years has borne fruit in the design and development of THAAD and other currently deployed U.S. missile-defense systems. And much progress has been achieved in the years ...

THAAD is designed to stop incoming missiles in their terminal, or descent, phase of flight, while Aegis makes its intercept in the mid-course phase, outside Earth’s atmosphere, before the ...