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National Defense March 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy Prepares to Put Aegis Ships `On Alert' The Navy is speeding up preparations to deploy a sea-based missile defense system by early 2005.
National Defense December 2004 Harold Kennedy	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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John McHale	Track It, Destroy It The key to any successful missile-defense shield is the ability of the sensors to track the missile accurately. Recent missile tests prove that an effective missile-defense shield is closer than ever before.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John McHale	Sensors Light Path to Defeating Incoming Military designers are taking advantage of the latest sensor technology and signal processing systems to track and kill incoming enemy missiles.
Popular Mechanics December 2008 Erik Sofge	The Hardware Behind Missile Protection The Missile Defense Agency has alternatives to deal with varying types of missile attacks.
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Tim Shorrock	U.S. Deploys Missile Defense System The rockets may not glare and bombs may not burst in the air but the Bush administration is forging ahead with construction of what it terms an "operational" missile defense system.
National Defense August 2014 Robert G. Gard Jr.	National Missile Defense Technology Still Falls Short The United States has been attempting to develop a workable national missile defense capability since 1944.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 J.R. Wilson	Ballistic Missile Defense Looks to the Future Command centers that will help guide ballistic missile defense efforts are providing opportunities for a wide variety of commercial off-the-shelf computers, displays, and high-speed networking.
Popular Mechanics December 2008	New Defensive Missiles Protect U.S. Against Rogue Attacks If a missile is headed for the United States, the Missile Defense Agency's defensive net will work. "I feel confident in the system," says Delta Crew's director, Maj. Don Mercer.
Popular Mechanics August 28, 2008 Erik Sofge	Inside U.S. Missile Defense Tech--and (Perhaps) a New Cold War The U.S. ballistic missile defense shield has been up and running since 2004, and it's growing.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 John McHale	Aegis BMD Weapon System with Prototype Signal Processor Tracks Ballistic Missiles The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Weapon System, aided by a prototype signal processor from Lockheed Martin, tracked several advanced ballistic missile targets in separate tests off the coast of Hawaii in April.
Wired April 2002 George Lewis & Theodore Postol	Shoot To Kill Two MIT rocket scientists have a dire warning for Washington: The Bush plan for national missile defense won't work. Here's one that will...
National Defense February 2016 Jon Harper	Homeland Missile Defense Projects Remain in Limbo Uncertainty surrounds the future of homeland missile defense at a time of budget constraints and technology challenges.
National Defense December 2005 Harold Kennedy	Pentagon Eyes Growing Short-Range Missile Threat Defense Department officials are warning that terrorists soon could strike U.S. cities with short-range missiles.
National Defense June 2004 Roxana Tiron	Missile Defense Agency Prepares For Key Flight Tests in 2005 Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish, the head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, is planning an aggressive push to get programs tested by 2005.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 Edward J. Walsh	Navy on the verge of major shipboard electronics breakthroughs Open-architecture and COTS technologies are critical for advances in ship propulsion, navigation and guidance, weapons control, ballistic missile defense, modular mission packages, and related systems for the nation's maritime defense.
National Defense April 2013 Stew Magnuson	When It Comes to the Navy's Destroyers, It's a Numbers Game Providing the coverage the Navy believes it needs to patrol the world's oceans is being made more complicated by a chronic shortage of destroyers, analysts have said.
National Defense April 2014 Stew Magnuson	Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile Sparks Speculation, Concern Designed to be launched from land and strike a moving ship at sea by employing a maneuverable reentry vehicle during a regional conflict, it has been called a "game changing weapon."
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 John Keller	Joining sensors through data fusion Data experts are are relying on various approaches to refine sensor outputs into useful information, and essentially create a whole sensor picture that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Boeing, Missile Defense Agency Test Missile Defense Sensor Integration and Netcentricity Engineers completed testing of a Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system being billed as the most complex integration to date of sensors required to support a missile intercept.
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Erik Sofge	Under-the-Radar Progress at Missile Defense Agency Missile defense hit center stage as President Bush and Vladimir Putin traded words at the G8 Summit, but a dramatic test recently marked a milestone for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
National Defense February 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Proliferation of Cruise Missiles Sparks Concern About U.S. Air Defenses The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan saw the rise of improvised explosive devices as the ultimate asymmetric weapon. Future conflicts, strategists warn, could expose U.S. forces on land and at sea to a deadly weapon that is extremely hard to detect: cruise missiles.
National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel	Navy Leaders Want a More Flexible Fleet After fighting two land wars for a decade, the military is putting an emphasis back on the sea and is shifting its focus to the Asia-Pacific region and to a more maritime-weighted mission in the Middle East.
National Defense November 2015 Jon Harper	Navy Working on 'Sci-Fi' Weapons The Navy's research-and-development dollars are going toward systems that will help the service stay ahead of advanced weaponry being developed by China and other potential adversaries.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2009 Edward J. Walsh	Navy steps out on MODERNIZATION Top Navy leaders are struggling to balance the right kind of ships, the best number of platforms, and the best mix of electronic and electro-optic technologies to meet the changing worldwide threats of the 21st century.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 Edward J. Walsh	Warship radar technology designers set sights on next-generation Navy cruiser The companies are stressing compliance with Navy "open-architecture" mandates, technology risk reduction, and the need to meet new airborne and missile threats.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 Ed Walsh	The Next Step for Shipboard Electronics Growth of the U.S. Navy's fleet of surface warships and submarines is riding on systems innovation and new technologies to introduce open-systems solutions for network-centric warfare, ballistic-missile defense, and other capabilities for the 21st century maritime warfare.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006	Lockheed Martin Awards Data Recording Systems Contract to VMETRO Designers at the Lockheed Martin Corp. Missiles and Space segment needed data recording systems to support their work with the Aegis ballistic missile defense weapon system. They found their solution from the Vortex VME Open Data Recording platform from VMETRO Inc.
Popular Mechanics September 17, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	The Flying Future for America's Missile Shield The big news in missile defense this week is that the Obama administration will likely scale back plans to install ground-based missile defense interceptors in Europe that are designed to protect allies and U.S. forces in Europe from long-range Iranian missiles.
Defense Update Issue 2, 2006	Israels Strategic Defense Programs Israel's multi-layered anti-ballistic defense program known as "Choma" (Barrier wall in Hebrew) was developed to mitigate ballistic missile threats.
Popular Mechanics February 14, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Satellite Shot Offers Navy Key Space Defense Trial: How It Works The Pentagon today announced that a Navy warship has been tasked with shooting down a failing United States spy satellite that, if left alone, was expected to hit Earth within weeks.
National Defense January 2015 Ben Freeman	Canceling the DDG-1000 Destroyer Program Was a Mistake The U.S. Navy's DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers are extraordinarily expensive, but ending the Zumwalt program in favor of buying upgraded versions of the decades-old Arleigh-Burke DDG-51 destroyers limits the Navy's capabilities without significantly reducing costs
Defense Update Issue 1, 2006	Israel Plans Short-Range Ballistic Missile Defense (SRMD) Raytheon Company and Rafael Armament Development Authority have been selected by the Israel Ministry of Defense' Defense Research and development Directorate to develop a new terminal missile defense interceptor to defeat a variety of low-cost, short-range ballistic missile threats.
Popular Mechanics July 16, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Raytheon to Give Tomahawk a New Edge Last Friday, Raytheon scored a Navy contract worth more than $12.8 million to create a new warhead for the Tomahawk missile.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard	First Air-to-Air Missile Defense System Intercepts Boosting Missile A U.S. Air Force F-16 jet fighter launched two air-to-air AIM-9X missiles, which in turn intercepted a boosting rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range. The event marked the first time that an aircraft made a missile-defense intercept.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 Edward J. Walsh	Navy Advances Surface-Ship Technologies Program managers go all-out on open systems and COTS to upgrade existing destroyers, cruisers, and other surface warships, while looking ahead to new destroyer and cruiser electronics and electro-optics technologies.
National Defense March 2015 Valerie Insinna	'Distributed Lethality' Concept Boosts Navy's Need For New Weaponry A new concept called "distributed lethality," describes how legacy vessels would be packed with off-the-shelf weapons and sensors that make them more deadly and survivable.
National Defense March 2014 Sharp & Thurman	U.S. Military Needs Improved Missile Defense Technology The United States is confronting threats such as cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and ballistic missiles that can potentially overwhelm the Defense Department's legacy air and missile defense systems.
National Defense January 2007 Grace Jean	China's Defense Build-up Merits Closer Attention From Navy, Say Analysts China has been beefing up its military might, and the rapid growth of its navy, in particular, is creating disagreements in the Defense Department over whether such a build-up ought to be perceived as a threat to U.S. interests in the Pacific.
National Defense April 2014 Stew Magnuson	China's Navy Takes Great Leap Forward China's navy is growing, analysts said. And it's not only the number of ships increasing. Modernization of its fleets is going hand in hand with new types of vessels including the stated goal of building indigenous aircraft carriers.
National Defense August 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Diesel Submarines Irritant to U.S. Navy Following several years of relative inaction, the U.S. Navy is charging ahead with plans to neutralize what it sees as the growing menace of enemy diesel-electric submarines.
National Defense August 2013 Insinna & Parsons	In a Post-Cold War World, Uncertainty Surrounds Nuclear Triad The world is a very different place than it was in the 1950s, when the United States needed thousands of nuclear warheads and three ways to deliver them on target to keep the Soviet Union at bay.
National Defense March 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Shrewd Tactics Underpin Navy Strategy to Defeat Diesel Submarines Navy planners anticipate that adversaries will try to deny U.S. forces access to key strategic coastal areas by deploying quiet diesel-electric submarines.
Popular Mechanics January 2007 Noah Shachtman	Hypersonic Cruise Missile: America's New Global Strike Weapon The mission: Attack anywhere in the world in less than an hour. But is the Pentagon's bold program a critical new weapon for hitting elusive targets, or a good way to set off a nuclear war?
Popular Mechanics August 28, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	5 Reasons the U.S. Navy's Scared (and What They're Doing About It) It's a well-known rule of thumb in military circles: protection from the things that scare the Pentagon receive R&D money.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008	In Brief Boeing installs high-energy laser on Laser Gunship aircraft... Northrop Grumman develops high-speed transistor... Raytheon tests air-launched missile defense system... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John McHale	Key Tactical Data Link Systems Clear Operational Testing U.S. Navy experts are moving ahead with an upgrade to the Tactical Data Link (TDL) system onboard Navy ships after testing the data link earlier this year. The TDL will transfer information quickly and securely among military assets.
National Defense September 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy Wants Precision Weapons That Don't Endanger Civilians Navy fighter-bombers in the future will be equipped with smaller, multifunctional munitions that will give pilots a broader array of options for attacking ground targets than the 1,000- or 2,000-pound bombs they now use.
National Defense April 2015 Valerie Insinna	Questions Remain About Navy's Modified Littoral Combat Ship Instead of cutting down the program of record, the service will procure the full 52-ship buy, and the last 20 ships will be outfitted with beefed up weapons, sensors and armor, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert announced in December.
National Defense January 2010 Grace V. Jean	Trident Program Intent On Avoiding Past Shipbuilding Pitfalls As the Navy begins to design its next ballistic-missile submarine, officials caution that the service must avoid shipbuilding practices of the past that have led to cost overruns and delays.