Missile Defense: Assessment of DOD's Reports on Status of Efforts and Options for Improving Homeland Missile Defense

Abstract

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is developing the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) to defend the U.S. homeland and U.S. regional friends and allies against ballistic missile attacks from countries such as North Korea and Iran. To counter such threats to the U.S. homeland, the BMDS is designed to combine the capabilities of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system with a network of ground-, sea-, and space-based sensors to provide an integrated, layered defense. GMD defends against threats by launching ground-based interceptors that release kill vehicles to find and destroy the threat.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 17, 2016
Accession Number
AD1172918

Entities

People

  • Brian Tittle
  • Cristina Chaplain
  • Hai V. Tran
  • Kevin O’neill
  • Kristine Hassinger
  • Latonya Miller
  • Stephanie Gustafson
  • Steven Stern

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aerospace Industry
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Best Practices
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Flight Testing
  • Governments
  • Ground Based
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • Kill Vehicles
  • Military Acquisition
  • National Security
  • North Korea
  • Reliability
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites