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 awarded L3Harris a study contract for HBTSS in 2019 and awarded the prototype demonstration contract in January 2021.
The Missile Defense Agency in January awarded Northrop Grumman a $155,000,000 contract and L3Harris a $121,000,000 contract to develop prototypes for on-orbit demonstrations.
Valley Tech Systems developed its controllable solid-propulsion technology under a series of Small Business Innovation Research contracts from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Air Force with Lockheed Martin as the commercialization and technology transition partner.
The Space Development Agency is working with the Missile Defense Agency on infrared sensor technology for detection of missile threats in low Earth orbit.
The Missile Defense Agency selected two satellite designs made by L3Harris and Northrop Grumman for HBTSS and plans to launch both prototypes to orbit in 2023.
Valley Tech Systems developed its NGI propulsion technology under a series of Small Business Innovation Research contracts awarded by the Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Air Force with Lockheed Martin as the commercialization and technology transition partner.
Valley Tech Systems won a $94,000,000 contract from Lockheed Martin to provide a solid propulsion subsystem for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Next Generation Interceptor.
The Space Development Agency is working with the Missile Defense Agency to develop sensor satellites to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
The Missile Defense Agency selected Raytheon Missiles & Defense as one of the companies to develop and test the first interceptor specifically designed to defeat hypersonic threats.
The Missile Defense Agency awarded contracts on 2021-11-19 to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon to develop interceptor missiles capable of hitting a hypersonic glide vehicle in flight.
Northrop Grumman received a $153,000,000 contract from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency for the Phase IIB portion of the HBTSS program.
Valley Tech Systems holds multiple awards from the Missile Defense Agency, NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Army for its advanced technologies.
L3Harris is developing a sensor satellite to track hypersonic and ballistic missiles under a $121,000,000 contract received in January from the Missile Defense Agency.
The Missile Defense Agency awarded L3Harris a prototype contract to develop the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor in January.
The Space Development Agency, the Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. Space Force, and the National Reconnaissance Office are seeking to deploy proliferated constellations in low Earth orbit.
Northrop Grumman developed an infrared camera called the Prototype Infrared Payload (PIRPL) that is flying on the NG-16 Cygnus for the Missile Defense Agency and Space Development Agency.
The Missile Defense Agency and the Space Development Agency will use PIRPL to test technologies for future missile tracking satellites.
PIRPL was procured under a $13,800,000 contract from the Space Development Agency and the Missile Defense Agency.
Mobius Parsons Solutions (MPS) Joint Venture, a partnership between Parsons Corporation and Mobius Consulting, LLC, was awarded a $567,000,000 contract by the Missile Defense Agency for the Technical, Engineering, Advisory, and Management Support (TEAMS)–Next Systems Test Support contract.
Two Missile Defense Agency cubesats launched 2021-06-30 aboard Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne successfully began communicating with ground stations by 2021-07-12.