A simulated exercise with NATO and Russian missile-defense assets showed improved effectiveness against attacks when the former Cold-War enemies synchronized their operations in a single command-and-control center, according to the summary of a draft after-action report of the event.697 words

The House Armed Services Committee wants a senior Pentagon board to look into how concurrency, defined as "the overlap between technology development or between product development and production," affects missile defense programs. 506 words

The House Armed Services Committee, worried about the potential effects of sequestration, wants the Missile Defense Agency to submit a report on its industrial base. 581 words

U.S. officials are hoping the Pentagon's cost assessment and program evaluation office will complete a cost analysis of the Obama administration's proposed missile defense effort in Europe by this summer. 643 words

The House Armed Services Committee wants data derived from the European Phased Adaptive Approach to missile defense and the NATO theater missile defense system to be shared with Israel, if necessary. "The committee directs the [defense] secretary to provide verification . . . that there are no international barriers to sharing with Israel any missile defense data derived from U.S. systems when the United States determines that the sharing of such data would further U.S. national security goals," according to the panel's fiscal year 2013 defense authorization report.88 words

Defense officials wasted no time recently in releasing almost $300 million for the Medium Extended Air Defense System following the submission of a congressionally mandated report only days before.433 words

The House Appropriations Committee has zeroed out funds for the Medium Extended Air Defense System, dealing a significant blow to the program designed to replace the aging Patriot missile-defense system. 260 words

Lawmakers have approved a Pentagon request to shift more than $300 million between missile defense accounts to support immediate needs, including funding required to avoid a stop-work order on the Next Generation Aegis Missile -- a weapon that figures prominently in the Obama administration's plan to defend Europe from Iranian missiles.692 words

The House Armed Services Committee wants to ensure that nuclear weapon experts can "freely share" their views on the safety, security, reliability and credibility of and plans for the nuclear weapons stockpile and nuclear forces with national leaders.218 words

The House Armed Services Committee wants the Defense Department's acquisition chief to submit an annual assessment for five years on the synchronization of satellite, ground and user terminal segments of major space acquisition programs.626 words

The House Armed Services Committee has advanced legislation in its fiscal year 2013 defense authorization bill that requires Air Force Secretary Michael Donley to assess the foreign components and space launch capability of the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program and deliver a report on that capability to Congress within six months after the law's enactment.717 words

A Standard Missile-3 Block IB interceptor successfully shot down a target missile for the first time last week during Flight Test Mission-16 Event 2A, according to the Missile Defense Agency.364 words

Following its May 4 launch, the Air Force's second Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite is functioning as expected, and its liquid apogee engine -- the primary motor used to lift the satellite into orbit -- has not exhibited any of the failures that AEHF-1 suffered in 2010.1078 words

Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne recently completed some early developmental tests on a variant of the rocket's upper-stage engine, the RL10, that could create more commonality and generate savings among the EELV program's two types of rockets.466 words

In a joint contracting effort run through NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, the Air Force and NASA are accepting industry bids to conduct multiple studies on the future of the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle's upper-stage engine -- studies that will examine the feasibility of the two organizations' developing and procuring a common engine to drive down the cost of space launch.1059 words