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China Conducts Test of New Anti-Satellite Missile
China’s military on Monday conducted the first test of a new ground-launched anti-satellite missile that was fired into space and disguised as a space-exploration rocket, according to U.S. officials. The test was carried out early Monday …
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House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces: Missile Defense Fiscal Year 2014 Budget
Defense Department officials testified on their fiscal year 2014 budget request for missile defense.
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N Korea 'removes' missiles from east coast launch site
North Korea has removed two medium-range missiles from a coastal launch site, indicating a lowering of tension on the peninsula, a US official said. Pyongyang was believed to be preparing for a launch last month, having …
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Russia prepares replacement for soviet-era railway-based missiles
Russia has started design works to create a new railroad-based missile system to replace weapons destroyed in the mid-2000s under the old START treaty and are now allowed by the “New START”. The design bureau that …
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Current Developments in Russia's Ballistic Missile Defense
In May 2012, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said: “Missile defense is an illusion - no matter how much money you invest in it.” At the same time, a source from Russia’s defense industry …
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Japan to deploy missile defense system in Okinawa permanently
Amid the increasingly bellicose rhetoric coming from North Korea and its threats of being able to strike Japan at any point it wishes to, the government will be deploying a missile defense system in Okinawa Prefecture permanently.Okinawa is …
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FY 2014 Budget Documents
The FY 2014 Budget of the U.S. government provides $526.6 billion in discretionary funding for the base budget of the Department of Defense. The full budget document is available here: FY 2014 Budget Request A spreadshseet breakdown is available here: FY 2014 Breakdown More detailed information …
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Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative Speech
Co-hosted by the George C. Marshall Institute Thirty years following President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) speech, the United States still does not have a comprehensive ballistic missile defense system. While the geopolitical landscape has …
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Missile Defense, the Space Relationship, and the Twenty-First Century
The 2009 report of the Independent Working Group, Missile Defense, the Space Relationship, and the Twenty-First Century, includes updated chapters on the ballistic missile threat, the politics of missile defense, and a summary of what must …
News & Analysis
U.S. Army Will Evaluate JLENS Over Mid-Atlantic Region
Prime contractor Raytheon expects that the U.S. Army will begin an operational evaluation in the coming fiscal year of its joint land attack cruise missile defense elevated netted sensor system (JLENS), an aerostat-based surveillance system that will monitor a sizeable chunk of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region.
