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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Northrop Grumman was selected by the Missile Defense Agency to build a prototype sensor satellite capable of tracking hypersonic and ballistic missiles.
The Missile Defense Agency and the Space Development Agency are expected to procure hundreds more satellites to eventually provide global coverage.
The Missile Defense Agency will develop an additional 28 wide field-of-view satellites.
The medium field-of-view OPIR sensors developed by the Missile Defense Agency will provide more specific target location data to cue weapons automatically.
The Department of the Air Force, the Missile Defense Agency, the Space Development Agency, and others are planning to spend tens of billions of dollars pursuing various potential satellite constellations with a variety of sensor types, constellation sizes, and orbits ranging from proliferated low Earth to geosynchronous.
The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency is designing a medium-field-of-view satellite layer that has not yet been funded.
Constellations of satellites that use infrared sensors to detect missile launches are being developed by the U.S. Space Force, the Space Development Agency, and the Missile Defense Agency.
The military services and the Missile Defense Agency submitted nearly $18,000,000,000 in unfunded priorities for fiscal year 2021.
A Missile Defense Agency test to intercept a ballistic missile target over the Pacific Ocean is planned for late 2020.
The Missile Defense Agency awarded Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Leidos, and L3Harris each a $20,000,000 contract to design space sensors that can track hypersonic and ballistic missiles on 2019-10-29.
The subcommittee provided $108,000,000 to the Missile Defense Agency for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program, formerly known as the Space Sensor Layer.
The subcommittee included $237,800,000 for the Missile Defense Agency to accelerate hypersonic defense programs.
The White House opposes a Senate NDAA provision that assigns the Missile Defense Agency responsibility for developing and deploying a hypersonic and ballistic tracking space sensor constellation "as soon as technically feasible."
The Missile Defense Agency requested $157,400,000 to continue developing space-based sensors to defend the United States and allies from hypersonic threats.
The Missile Defense Agency requested $157,000,000 for 2020 to continue studying a space architecture for hypersonic missile defense.
SPI will pay an additional $6,000,000 to NASA and $5,000,000 to the Missile Defense Agency as part of a separate civil settlement.
SPI will pay $34,100,000 in combined restitution to NASA, the Missile Defense Agency, and commercial customers.
The Missile Defense Agency has been studying options to deploy a space sensor layer for hypersonic detection, and the Department of Defense currently has no official requirement to develop such a layer.
Fred Kennedy's memo estimates that as many as 20 civilian and 15 military positions could be reduced at the Missile Defense Agency, which employs 2,900 government personnel.
The Missile Defense Agency plans to select three of the nine contractor submissions 2019 to continue work for another six to nine months.