The Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) mission is to develop, test, and field an integrated, layered, ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) to defend the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends against all ranges of enemy ballistic missiles in all phases of flight.
Feb. 3, 2017 - MDA and the Japan Ministry of Defense (MoD), and U.S. Navy sailors aboard USS John Paul Jones successfully conducted a flight test, resulting in the first intercept of a ballistic missile target using the SM-3 Block IIA off the west coast of Hawaii. Read More about this story
Jan. 25, 2017 - The Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) successfully completed a test series of the David’s Sling Weapons System, a missile defense system that is a central part of Israel’s multi-layer anti-missile array.Read More about this story
Dec. 14, 2016 - The Missile Defense Agency and sailors aboard USS John Paul Jones successfully fired a salvo of two SM-6 Dual I missiles against a complex medium-range ballistic missile target, meeting the test's primary objective.Read More about this story
May 25, 2016 - The Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy sailors aboard USS Hopper (DDG 70) successfully conducted two developmental flight tests of the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB Threat Upgrade guided missile on May 25 and 26 off the west coast of Hawaii.Read More about this story
May 25, 2016 - The Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy sailors aboard USS Hopper (DDG 70) successfully conducted two developmental flight tests of the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB Threat Upgrade guided missile on May 25 and 26 off the west coast of Hawaii.Read More about this story
Jan. 28, 2016 - A long-range ground-based interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, successfully evaluating performance of alternate divert thrusters for the system’s Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle. Read More about this story
