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National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Sea-Based Missile Defense Scores Hits, But Will it Work in a Real Attack? There is still one major weakness in U.S. missile defense systems that neither the Navy nor the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency has yet been able to overcome -- the ability to discern real warheads from harmless decoys.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010	U.S. Navy Selects General Dynamics Electric Boat Fire-Control Systems for Ballistic Missile Submarines General Dynamics Electric Boat won a $31 million maintenance and modernization contract from the Navy Strategic Systems program to deliver fire-control systems to the U.S. Navy.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 John Keller	Pentagon seeks to build airborne infrared sensor for ballistic missile defense Leaders of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency in Washington are trying to develop an airborne infrared sensor system within the next five years that is capable of tracking and intercepting enemy ballistic missiles in boost phase at or near engine burnout.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
Salon.com June 9, 2000 Joshua Micah Marshall	Dubya's atomic fib Instead of stopping an arms race, George W. Bush's Star Wars plan could help fuel one.
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 October 2009	ABL High-Power Laser Weapon Moves Toward Missile Shoot-Down Demonstration Missile defense experts fired the high-power laser aboard the Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft in flight for the first time in August, to move the airborne military laser closer to an actual missile shoot-down demonstration.
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.
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.
Salon.com January 23, 2001 Suzy Hansen	Secret weapons Frances FitzGerald talks about the Bush administration's commitment to national missile defense, the "son of Star Wars" scheme no one seems to understand...
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010	In Brief Next-generation avionics for Ariane 5 launch vehicle to be provided by Astrium... UAV, UGV capabilities of Brigade Combat Team Modernization Increment 1 to enter production... etc.
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 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 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.
National Defense February 2014 Valerie Insinna	New System to Test Firing Air-to-Surface Missiles from Ground Moog Inc. is scheduled to test whether its new system will allow users to launch Hellfire missiles from combat vehicles and boats in addition to being fired by helicopters and airplanes. That capability has been on the Army's wish list.
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.
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 April 2014 Valerie Insinna	Joint Air-to-Ground Missile Program Inches Forward Lockheed Martin's replacement for the Hellfire missile hit a milestone in February, when the company demonstrated that the dual mode guidance section on its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile could engage targets with a laser.
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 January 2006	PPGI Makes Missile-Warning Sensors Designers at ATK Missile Systems have chosen Photonic Products Group to make optical components for a missile warning system that protects U.S. aircraft in Iraq from shoulder-fired missiles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 John Keller	U.S. Military Stretched Thin at Just the Wrong Time Pressure is mounting from all sides to reduce spending for sophisticated U.S. military equipment and weapons, and it's coming at the wrong time.
National Defense May 2004 Sandra Erwin	Pentagon Review Approaching For Army-Navy Air-to-Ground Missile Proponents of joint-service weapon programs will be watching closely the outcome of an upcoming Pentagon review for a new air-to-ground missile, to be launched from Army, Marine Corps and Navy aircraft.
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.
National Defense October 2014 Marvin Baker Schaffer	Time to Revive Debate About Space-Based Missile Defense Boost phase missile defense is necessary to reliably and cost-effectively defeat the most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile threats, those of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China.
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Takes $35 Million Hit On Joint Common Missile As a result of funding cuts, the Army is unable to bring a second industry competitor into one of its largest missile programs.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006	Tecom antenna assembly selected by Raytheon for SM-6 ERAM program The SM-6 ERAM extended-range, anti-aircraft missile takes advantage of the Standard Missile airframe and the seeker technology of Raytheon's advanced medium-range air-to-air missile.
National Defense August 2015 Stew Magnuson	Hypersonic Weapons Race Gathers Speed What nation wouldn't want a weapon that closes in on its target at Mach 10, or about 7,500 mph?
Salon.com May 2, 2001 Fiona Morgan	Missile defense goes global Bush seeks to woo Europe while violating our hallmark arms control agreement with Russia. Analysts react to the president's speech...
Salon.com May 2, 2001 Jake Tapper	Star Wars, the gentler sequel In announcing his support for a national missile defense, George W. Bush puts a futuristic spin on a Cold War relic...
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 John Keller	DOD Set to Boost Spending for Communications, Electronics, and Intelligence Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) propose spending $29.16 billion in 2009 for procurement and research in communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence (CET&I) technologies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
National Defense May 2009 Stew Magnuson	Iranian Threat Spurs Gulf Nations to Upgrade Defenses When it comes to air-and-missile defense, the United Arab Emirates is sparing no expense to guard the nation against a looming Iranian threat. And it has the cash to do so.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004	Test Moves Missile-Defense Laser Program Closer to Deployment The future U.S. Airborne Laser system took another step forward last month when modules of the system's megawatt-class chemical oxygen-iodine laser were test fired for the first time while linked together as one unit.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007	BAE Systems to Upgrade Laser for U.S. Army Helicopters The defense contractor has won two U.S. Army contracts totaling $54 million to provide a multiband laser technology upgrade for the Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures/Common Missile Warning System program.