The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is a research and development agency within the Department of Defense. Its mission is to develop and deploy a layered missile defense system to protect the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends from missile attacks in all phases of flight. MDA is developing space-based sensors for tracking ballistic and hypersonic missiles and works with partners like the U.S. Space Force and U.S. Navy on testing and deployment. Keywords associated with MDA include missile defense, ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons, space-based sensors, and interceptor technology.
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The Missile Defense Agency selected Sidus Space as one of its contract awardees under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ contract.
On December 22, 2025, the Missile Defense Agency advanced a structural transition in Pentagon procurement with the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract.
The Missile Defense Agency selected 1,086 additional companies, including Sidus Space and Ursa Space Systems, to compete for task orders under the $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense contract on December 18.
CEO Theresa Condor stated that Spire was named to the U.S. government Missile Defense Agency’s multi-award ShIELD Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract with a shared ceiling of $151 billion.
The U.S. Space Force Missile Defense Agency has selected Momentus to participate in its Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle.
The initiative combines assets from the Space Force, Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and commercial partners into a unified command-and-control architecture.
Trace Systems has been selected as a prime contractor on the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) SHIELD contract vehicle.
The successful static fire of SMASH!22 provides Northrop Grumman with verified data to present these manufacturing techniques to government customers, including the U.S. Air Force and the Missile Defense Agency.
The Missile Defense Agency finalized the LRDR’s operational trial period for the Combat Forces Command on December 4, 2025.
The Missile Defense Agency continues to fund and execute LRDR weapon system Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, upgrades, and maintenance.
The Missile Defense Agency issued unpublicized Other Transaction Agreement awards in coordination with the U.S. Space Force.
The first launch was a HASTE suborbital hypersonic technology test flight from Wallops Island, Virginia for the Defense Innovation Unit and Missile Defense Agency.
The Prometheus Run mission is associated with the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
Rocket Lab successfully launched a suborbital mission with its HASTE launch vehicle for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on November 18, 2025.
The launch was conducted for the Defense Innovation Unit and the Missile Defense Agency to test advanced technologies for missile defense.
Quantum Space hired Missile Defense Agency vet Richard Matlock to enhance its defense potential.
SciTec's customers include the National Reconnaissance Office, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, U.S. Space Systems Command, the Space Development Agency, and the Missile Defense Agency.
In May, Quantum Space appointed Richard Matlock, a former Missile Defense Agency executive, to lead its defense business.
Key agencies and commands at Redstone Arsenal include the Army Materiel Command, the Missile Defense Agency, and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
In February 2024 SpaceX launched the USSF-124 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, deploying six U.S. missile defense satellites for the Space Development Agency and the Missile Defense Agency.