Cummings Aerospace has designed a larger version of its Hellhound to meet Golden Dome homeland missile defense needs.
The Army wants laser weapons that can defeat drone threats, but it wants the ability to maintain them in battlefield environments and build them at scale.
A piece of the $175 billion Golden Dome pie could give the Next Generation Interceptor a boost to shore up a development delay.
The Army's new air and missile defense strategy incorporates emerging technology like artificial intelligence to handle growing, complex threats.
The Army will add new Patriot battalions, Indirect Fire Protection Capability battalions and counter-drone batteries to the mix.
More Stories The Army's new air and missile defense strategy incorporates emerging technology like artificial intelligence to handle growing, complex threats. The Army will add new Patriot battalions, Indirect Fire Protection Capability battalions and counter-drone batteries to the mix. Lockheed Martin wants to partner across the industry to prototype command-and-control solutions for the Golden Dome homeland missile defense shield. In a ceremony on Monday, L3Harris officially opened its new 379,000 square foot solid rocket motor inert parts production facility in Huntsville. The Army is planning to grow a force stretched thin to meet today's air and missile defense demands. The Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor will be part of an architecture designed to protect Guam from evolving air and missile threats. The Missile Defense Agency is developing a command center integrating a variety of capability for an air and missile defense architecture for Guam. After MDA canceled a ballistic missile target tracking test of its Long-Range Discrimination Radar, it is now poised to conduct the major test next year. The US Army's directed energy solution for short-range air defense continues to be refined through a variety of competitive prototyping efforts. The MDA will soon conclude a competition to develop an interceptor capable of defeating hypersonic threats in the glide phase of flight. The Army will spend roughly three years studying the physics of shooting the hypervelocity projectile from 155mm cannons. The Army is one step closer to fielding its long-range hypersonic weapon after a successful end-to-end flight test in May. A competition for a new command-and-control system focused on countering air drones will kick off next year. The Army is also planning on holding a competition for a new handheld device to take out drones. Load More