Abstract: The Administration's new "phased adaptive approach" for missile defense in Europe and the Pentagon's wider sea-based Aegis BMD program have the potential to provide robust missile defense ...

The Aegis ballistic missile defense (BMD) program, which is carried out by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Navy, gives Navy Aegis cruisers and destroyers a capability for conducting BMD ...

In the history of missile defense, the period between Safeguard and Star Wars for many is a void -- with nothing of significance occurring between these milestones. In reality however, the situation ...

Maj. Gen. Robert C. Marshall, Ballistic Missile Defense, or BMD, program manager, signed the Safeguard missile defense operations plan that was developed as part of the Ballistic Missile Defense ...

A key Pacific ally of the United States has become the first foreign nation to field a sea-based ballistic missile interception system. The technology is a modification of the Aegis air defense ...

WASHINGTON — The latest U.S. Navy Aegis ships fitted for the ballistic missile defense (BMD) program can now handle anti-air warfare roles as well, according to Navy and industry sources. More Arleigh ...

Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) is both a field activity of the Naval Sea System Command, as well as the Navy element of the overall Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency (MDA) program.

Canada’s Liberal government is considering joining the US-led ballistic missile defense (BMD) system, reversing a decision taken 11 years ago by Paul Martin’s minority Liberal government. The ...

CHELMSFORD, Mass., Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Mercury Computer Systems is delivering a high-speed data storage subsystem to Raytheon for the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense program. The subsystem will be ...

Is it time for Canada to join the U.S. in a continental ballistic missile defence (BMD) program? On Tuesday, according to Reuters, North Korea warned foreigners to leave South Korea to avoid being ...

The following is the Feb. 6, 2019 Congressional Research Service report, Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Program: Background and Issues for Congress. The Aegis ballistic missile defense ...