U.S. Department of Defense - Missile Defense Agency

U.S. Department of Defense - Missile Defense Agency

MDA MISSION

The Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) mission is to develop and deploy a layered Missile Defense System to defend the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends from missile attacks in all phases of flight.


NEWS

Apr. 15, 2024 MDA Selects Lockheed Martin to Continue Development of Next Generation Interceptor
Apr. 2, 2024 SPY-7 Radar Developed for Japan’s Aegis System Equipped Vessel Achieves First Track of Objects in Space
Mar. 28, 2024 MDA, Navy Conducts Successful Intercept with SM-6; Advances collaboration with Australia (FTM-32)
Mar. 11, 2024 MDA PB25 Budget Summary
Mar. 11, 2024 MDA FY25 Budget Booklet
Feb. 14, 2024 MDA, SDA Confirm Successful Launch Of The Hypersonic And Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor...
Feb. 14, 2024 MDA, SDA Announce Upcoming Launch of the Hypersonic & Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor...
Feb. 8, 2024 MDA & Navy Successfully Demonstrate Aegis Capabilities... (FTX-23)
Dec. 11, 2023 Homeland Missile Defense System Conducts Successful Intercept Of Target (FTG-12)
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  • Dec. 6, 2021 - The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced the completion of military construction and installation of radar arrays for the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) during a ceremony declaring the initial fielding of the radar at Clear Space Force Station, Alaska Dec. 6. Read More about this story

  • July 12, 2021 - Technicians with the Missile Defense Agency Nanosat Testbed Initiative and VOX Space hold one of two CubeSats MDA successfully deployed to space June 30, 2021, aboard a VOX Space, LLC LauncherOne rocket as part of a payload-sharing arrangement with the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program. Read More about this story

  • Mar. 30, 2023 - A Standard Missile-6 is launched from the USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118) off the coast of the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii as part of Flight Test Aegis Weapon System 31 Event 1a (FTM-31 E1a).Read More about this story

  • August 30, 2019 - The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, Ballistic Missile Defense System Operational Test Agency and U.S. Army soldiers of the E-62 Battery, 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, conducted an intercept test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) element of the nation's Ballistic Missile Defense System. Read More about this story

  • March 25, 2019 - The 'lead' Ground-based Interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., March 25, 2019, in the first-ever salvo engagement test of a threat-representative ICBM target. The two GBIs successfully intercepted a target launched from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll. Read More about this story