The Missile Defense Agency celebrated adding Chief Engineer Virginia Perkins to the ranks of Senior Executive Service Jan. 30 ...

The former head of the Missile Defense Agency who two decades ago oversaw the launch of the current system that provides limited national missile defense against North Korean and Iranian threats says ...

Read about Dawn Golightly's appointment as vice president of the upper tier integrated air and missile defense programs at ...

The follow-on contract will cost $2.8bn over the next five years, with options to extend development as the Pentagon prioritise air defence.

William Blauser will serve as acting director of SDA. He is currently deputy director of the Air Force’s Rapid Capabilities ...

Trump's push follows in the footsteps of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a scrapped program popularly called "Star Wars." ...

Learn about Julia MacDonough’s appointment as Draper vice president and general manager and her career in the military, civil ...

On January 27, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at strengthening the United States' missile defense capabilities in response to increasing threats from advanced ...

Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system fires interceptors at rockets launched from the Gaza Strip in May 2023. (Tsafrir Abayov/AP) President Donald Trump’s executive order to develop a next ...

The US military is transferring some 90 Patriot air defense missile interceptors from storage in Israel to be used in Ukraine against Russian strikes, according to a new report. The Patriot ...

To some State Department officials and Middle East analysts who tracked the issue, it showcased the law of unintended consequences.

Since 2002, the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency has spent more than $194 billion, including $10.4 billion for fiscal year 2022, to equip operational commanders with a layered system of sensors ...