Estimates of Performance and Cost for Boost Phase Intercept
With the considerable recent interest in boost phase missile defense, Dr. Gregory Canavan explored the assumptions behind analyses of the cost and performance of boost phase intercept from space. In...
View ArticleReport of the American Physical Society Study Group on Boost-Phase Intercept...
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Independent Working Group (IWG) 2007 Report
Five years after withdrawing from the ABM Treaty, the United States has so far failed to take advantage of the withdrawal and revive development of specific technologies necessary to make the nation...
View ArticleBoost-Phase Missile Defense: Present Challenges, Future Prospects
The pursuit of ballistic missile defense ranks among the most contentious national security concerns of the last 30 years. Nevertheless, significant steps have been taken in recent years to deploy...
View ArticleScience and Technology Issues of Early Intercept Ballistic Missile Defense...
The Defense Science Board Task Force on Science and Technology Issues of Early Intercept (EI) Ballistic Missile Defense Feasibility was convened in December 2009 and concluded its deliberations in May...
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NRC: Dump Boost-Phase Ballistic Missile Defense
This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report. The Pentagon and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) should reconsider any ballistic missile defense (BMD) missions focused on boost-phase...
View ArticleMaking Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense
The National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council has released a report entitled “Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: An Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost Phase Missile...
View ArticleMaking Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: An Assessment of Concepts and...
The Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives set forth to provide an assessment of the feasibility, practicality, and...
View ArticlePresident Obama’s missile defense failure imperils U.S. national security
April 27, 2013 – “I don’t agree with a missile defense system.” Those words from Barack Obama in 2001 help explain his disturbing presidential decision to continue cutting our nation’s missile defense...
View ArticleDemystifying Iron Dome
BARACK OBAMA encountered an unprecedented welcome when he visited Israel in March. He was greeted at the airport not just by the usual dignitaries but also by a hot new weapon—Israel’s Iron Dome...
View ArticleAlternatives for Boost-Phase Missile Defense
A prominent part of the Bush Administration’s strategy for national defense is developing and fielding defenses against ballistic missiles. To that end, the Department of Defense’s Missile Defense...
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U.S. Missile Defense Agency Eyes UAVs For Boost-Phase Targeting
August 16, 2013 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) plans to continue testing the use of Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles for ballistic missile target discrimination in the near...
View ArticleUS Eyes UAVs for Boost-Phase Missile Targeting
August 19, 2013 – The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) plans to continue testing the use of Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles for ballistic missile target discrimination in the near term because taking...
View ArticleUS Missile Defense: Closing the Gap
In March 2013, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, citing the progress of North Korea’s nuclear program, announced that the United States would be bolstering its missile defenses. Fourteen new...
View ArticleThe US Needs a Third Missile Defense Site
Ten years ago this month, the United States began to address its vulnerability to limited long-range nuclear missile strikes when the first ground-based interceptor (GBI) became operational at Fort...
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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...
View ArticleFive Futuristic Weapons That Could Change Warfare
Predicting which five weapons will have the greatest impact on the future of combat is a problematic endeavor, as the nature of warfare itself is fluid and constantly changing. A system that could be a...
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