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NEWS Jan. 18, 2022 IMDO, MDA Successfully Complete Flight Test of the Arrow Weapon System and Arrow 3 Interceptor Dec. 8, 2021 President Biden Selects MDA Space Executive for 2021 Presidential Rank Award Dec. 6, 2021 U.S. Missile Defense Agency Announces the Initial Fielding of the LRDR in Alaska Nov. 19, 2021 Missile Defense Agency Awards Contracts for Glide Phase Interceptor Design Nov. 3, 2021 Israel Begins Initial Testing For Deployment of Elevated Sensor Sept. 12, 2021 Homeland Missile Defense System Conducts Successful Launch of Upgraded Boost Vehicle Sept. 10, 2021 The SPY-7 Hybrid Defense Security Cooperation Project with Japan Completes Additional Capability Demonstration 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

Nov 16, 2020 - A SM-3 Block IIA is launched from the USS John Finn DDG-113, an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System-equipped destroyer, Nov. 16, 2020, as part of Flight Test Aegis Weapons System-44 (FTM-44).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

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