(Photo courtesy of the Missile Defense Agency) WASHINGTON — The Missile ... Battle Management and Communications system. The GMD is designed to protect the continental U.S. from potential ...

Adan Cazarez/U.S. Army) For the first time in three years, the Missile Defense ... The agency did not lay out specifically how much of the funding would go toward NGI development or GMD system ...

The US Defense Department announced ... According to the Missile Defence Agency (MDA), this is the first intercept test of the GMD in three years and the first live-fire test event against an ...

With GMD, the government’s approach was the opposite: “Buy, then fly.” Then-Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld exempted the Missile Defense Agency from standard procurement rules and ...

Before Sunday, the Missile Defense Agency had conducted 16 tests of the system’s ability to intercept such a target; half failed. The GMD system was intended to shield the United States from ...

151; -- The United States conducted a historic successful test of one of its missile defense systems yesterday. According to the U.S. Missile Defense Agency ... Defense (GMD) system that targeted ...

In a change of direction, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) now intends to combine ... contractor on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system since 1998, responsible for both the ...

WASHINGTON — While its ongoing competition to select a contractor to manage the primary U.S. territorial missile shield is getting most of the attention, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA ...

The UCA extended the DSC period of performance from January 2018 through December 2023, and added the requirements to execute the GMD portion of the presidential ... at the time of award. The Missile ...

The Missile Defense Agency's Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program is trying to determine why a simulated exo-atmospheric kill vehicle (EKV) failed to separate from its interceptor booster ...

GMD INTERCEPTOR: One down, 19 to go. That's the latest interceptor installation scorecard for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system. The first interceptor ...

Robert Gard and Philip Coyle label the U.S. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD ... ballistic-missile program. Those efforts have proved futile. In 2013, the Defense Intelligence Agency assessed ...