As the Army prepares to field full-rate versions of its new battle command system to the first unit, international interest is heating up.
The Army is grappling with how to fight with laser weapons, as well as how to easily repair them in the field and affordably make the systems.
The covert system promises the detection of aircraft optimized for stealth.
The Missile Defense Agency is striving to kick off flight tests next year involving part of the architecture under design to defend Guam.
The Army is embarking on a new Integrated Fires Test Campaign that will bring together modernized capability over the next five years.
With missile defense in the U.S. changing rapidly, is the defense budget and U.S. planning on the right track? Jeff Martin talks with Tom Karako to find out.
More Stories The Missile Defense Agency is striving to kick off flight tests next year involving part of the architecture under design to defend Guam. The Army is embarking on a new Integrated Fires Test Campaign that will bring together modernized capability over the next five years. The Army expects to receive 12 Indirect Fires Protection Capability prototypes from its developer, Dynetics, by the first of January in 2024. The service plans to divide the testing program for the sensor's 360-degree tracking capability into two stages to keep things manageable. The Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office will tackle drone swarms in its next quest to find a capability to counter the rising threat. The Army will grow its Patriot air and missile defense units, but it will take time as the service faces forcewide recruiting challenges. The competition to build the Next-Generation Interceptor for homeland defense is reaching a critical milestone on time as designs advance. The agency recently began building a robust air and missile defense architecture in Guam to protect the island from attack. The U.S. government has granted an export request for the system, the Israeli defense ministry announced. The company will produce air-breathing propulsion systems to support a range of DoD programs at the 60,000 square foot facility. The two companies toured a Camden, Arkansas, site where they may decide to build the Tamir and SkyHunter intercept weapons. Defense News spoke with the head of the U.S. Army's Space and Missile Defense Command, Lt. Gen. Daniel Karbler, about deployments and authority transfers. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has awarded another piece of a contract to maintain and upgrade its Ground-Based Midcourse Defense System. The Army's new Directed Energy Systems Integration Laboratory will help the service drive down cost and schedule risk in emerging laser weapons programs. Load More