U.S. Department of Defense - Missile Defense Agency

U.S. Department of Defense - Missile Defense Agency

MDA MISSION

The Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) mission is to develop and deploy a layered Missile Defense System to defend the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends from missile attacks in all phases of flight.


NEWS

Jan 14, 2025 MDA Conducts Second Hypersonic Test Bed Flight Experiment (HTB)
Dec 10, 2024 In A First, Ballistic Missile Intercept Successfully Conducted From Guam (FEM-02)
Oct 31, 2024 MDA Releases Guam Flight Test Final Environmental Assessment (EA)/Overseas EA and FONSI
Oct 25, 2024 MDA Releases Draft Environmental Impact Statement for EIAMD-Guam
Sept, 25, 2024 MDA, Northrop Grumman to Move Forward with Development of the Glide Phase Interceptor
Aug, 16, 2024 Pacific Dragon 2024 concludes, advances multinational cooperation
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  • Dec. 6, 2021 - The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced the completion of military construction and installation of radar arrays for the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) during a ceremony declaring the initial fielding of the radar at Clear Space Force Station, Alaska Dec. 6. Read More about this story

  • July 12, 2021 - Technicians with the Missile Defense Agency Nanosat Testbed Initiative and VOX Space hold one of two CubeSats MDA successfully deployed to space June 30, 2021, aboard a VOX Space, LLC LauncherOne rocket as part of a payload-sharing arrangement with the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program. Read More about this story

  • Mar. 30, 2023 - A Standard Missile-6 is launched from the USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118) off the coast of the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii as part of Flight Test Aegis Weapon System 31 Event 1a (FTM-31 E1a).Read More about this story

  • August 30, 2019 - The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, Ballistic Missile Defense System Operational Test Agency and U.S. Army soldiers of the E-62 Battery, 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, conducted an intercept test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) element of the nation's Ballistic Missile Defense System. Read More about this story

  • March 25, 2019 - The 'lead' Ground-based Interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., March 25, 2019, in the first-ever salvo engagement test of a threat-representative ICBM target. The two GBIs successfully intercepted a target launched from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll. Read More about this story

Guam Graphic
Guam Graphic