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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Space Dynamics Laboratory is an integrated member of the Missile Defense Agency team leading the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program and provides experience in space-based infrared sensing phenomenology and sensor systems design, test, and calibration.
The $15,300,000,000 in proposed 2022 space technology investments includes $400,000,000 for Missile Defense Agency and DARPA RDT&E.
The Missile Defense Agency is seeking $260,000,000 for the hypersonic and ballistic tracking space sensor (HBTSS).
The Pentagon’s $8,900,000,000 funding request for the Missile Defense Agency includes $292,800,000 for space programs.
The Missile Defense Agency is seeking about $300,000,000 for space sensors in the 2021-10-01 budget request.
The Missile Defense Agency is seeking $15,200,000 in 2022 to retire the STSS satellites.
CesiumAstro has collaborated with the Missile Defense Agency to develop a high-speed missile-to-missile communication system.
CesiumAstro has collaborated with the Missile Defense Agency to develop a high-speed missile-to-missile communication system.
When the Missile Defense Agency moved some of its operations from the Washington, D.C. area to Huntsville, it lost 80 percent of its civilian workforce because employees refused to relocate.
The Missile Defense Agency sensor satellites will be part of a larger missile warning network that will include Space Development Agency missile-tracking satellites being developed by L3Harris and SpaceX.
The Missile Defense Agency awarded Northrop Grumman and L3Harris contracts to build sensor satellites to be deployed in low Earth orbit in July 2023.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch 30 satellites in 2022, comprising 20 Transport Layer data-relay satellites, eight missile-warning Tracking Layer satellites, and two sensor satellites from the Missile Defense Agency.
SDA is working with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to build a constellation for detecting and tracking advanced missile threats.
The Space Development Agency and the Missile Defense Agency plan to launch a Prototype Infrared Payload made by Northrop Grumman as a medium field-of-view multispectral sensor.
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) was awarded a $121,000,000 U.S. Missile Defense Agency contract to build space flight hardware for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program.
The Missile Defense Agency awarded L3Harris a study contract for the HBTSS development program in 2019 as the prior phase of the program.
The Missile Defense Agency awarded Northrop Grumman a $155,000,000 contract on 2021-01-22 for the prototype sensor satellite.
L3Harris was selected by the Missile Defense Agency to build a prototype sensor satellite capable of tracking hypersonic and ballistic missiles.
In October 2019 the Missile Defense Agency awarded Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Leidos, and L3Harris each $20,000,000 contracts to design space sensors for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program.
The Missile Defense Agency awarded L3Harris a $121,000,000 contract on 2021-01-14 for the prototype sensor satellite.