missile defense
Is Space Sensor Layer the Pentagon’s next major space program?
Defense officials have been sounding alarms about what they describe as a glaring national security vulnerability — a new class of ultrafast weapons being developed by China and Russia that would overpower U.S. missile defenses.
Defense policy chief: Weapons in space are ‘bridges yet to be crossed’
Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Griffin said current defenses only work against ballistic missiles but not hypersonic gliders. “We can’t hit a target we cannot see coming."
SN Military.Space | Who’s who in the national security space workforce • Doubts raised about cost of Space Force • U.S., Brazil to share space data
Outside the national security space community, few people grasp the breadth of activities and missions that might one day transition to a Space Force, if and when Congress votes to create one.
SN Military.Space | Space Force a political football • The next big thing in space missile defense • How to make satellites ‘defendable’
The Pentagon's Joint Oversight Requirements Council will be briefed this fall on potential solutions to a major national security vulnerability: hypersonic weapons that fly into space at supersonic speeds and descend back down to Earth directly on top of targets.
U.S. would need a mega-constellation to counter China’s hypersonic weapons
Griffin: Hypersonic defense is not a mission that can be done realistically from the ground or the oceans.
SN Military.Space | Space reorganization: Reform fatigue already? • SMD Symposium underway in Huntsville • DARPA soon to announce Blackjack winners
These are uncertain times for many of the agencies and offices in the military-space-industrial landscape.
Pentagon ready to put missile-tracking sensors in space, but still needs proof the technology works
The Pentagon hopes to have funding approved possibly next year to begin work on a network of missile-watching satellites.
Amid tensions in Asia-Pacific, State Dept. calls attention to big-ticket sales of U.S. missiles, aircraft to Japan, South Korea
From 2000 to 2017, the U.S. government contracted more than $26 billion in foreign military sales to the Republic of Korea, including advanced combat aircraft and missile defense systems.
Missile-tracking satellites are part of the plan to foil Russia’s hypersonic weapons
The utility of space sensors has been studied for decades so the Pentagon has plenty of data to draw from.
On National Security | Missed opportunities in missile defense
The hand-wringing continues at the Pentagon over how to respond to Chinese and Russian missile advances.
New report slams idea of a missile defense shield in space
CSIS study: A space-based missile defense is impractical and ineffective to protect the United States and its allies.
Production of new missile warning satellites likely delayed by budget impasse
Thornberry cautioned the budget impasse will keep the Air Force from acquiring additional Space-Based Infrared Warning System satellites, known as SBIRS.
Lawmakers promise Pentagon a ‘lot of support’ for ballistic missile defense
The Senate and the House approved a $440 million funding boost for the Pentagon’s missile-defense program.
North Korean missiles are testing a stressed U.S. defense net
The latest North Korean missile tests come at time when the U.S. defensive shield is weakened, missile-defense analysts say, by this summer’s loss of a pair of warships specially outfitted for ballistic-missile defense.
Ukrainian government investigation concludes no engine transfers to North Korea
In a 1,300-word letter addressed to Poroshenko Tuesday, the Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksandr Turchynov laid out his government’s defense against a controversial New York Times story published last week.
Ukraine changes tactics on North Korea engine claims
In the days that followed Monday’s report in The New York Times that North Korea may have illicitly procured advanced Soviet-era rocket engines from Ukraine, the response out of the post-Soviet nation could best be described as trolling.
