Missile Defense

Four Questions on the LRS-B, Part 3

By James Hasik

Does it really need a nuclear capability? “Within days,” Air Force Assistant Secretary Bill LaPlante told us at the beginning of the week, but we’re still awaiting that RFP on the LRS-B. So, I continue to prematurely work through the four questions that I believe policymakers should want answered if the program is to proceed. To recap […]

Winnefeld Voices Support for Missile Shield Tests at Atlantic Council Conference

By Global Missile Defense

SpaceNews features comments about the US national missile shield made by the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. James Winnefeld, at the Atlantic Council’s conference on US and Global Missile Defense on May 28, 2014:

DARPA’s Crusade on Costs

By James Hasik

If the alternative is another round of acquisition reform, let’s bet on technology. Just after our recent Disrupting Defense conference, in an interview with Marcus Weisgerber of Defense News, DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar argued that the “High Cost of Weapons Threatens Security” (17 May). Her organization wants to be part of the solution, funding potentially “powerful new approaches” in armament, sensor, […]

Missile Denfese Conference Featured

By US and Global Missile Defense

The Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security’s annual US and Global Missile Defense Conference was featured by Breaking Defense, highlighting the real-world limits when using lasers in missile defense:

Scowcroft Center’s US and Global Missile Defense Conference Featured

Seapower magazine covered the Atlantic Council’s conference on US and Global Missile Defence, highlighting attempts by the US military to reassure Russian leadership that its ballistic missile defence is not designed to antagonize Russia:

Atlantic Council Missile Defense Conference Featured

Military Times covers the Atlantic Council’s US and Global Missile Defense conference, as both conference attendee Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. James Winnefeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey highlight US strength: