Linda Rothstein at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists suggests that Putin’s recent reference to “future weapons … which other nuclear powers do not and will not possess” is a reference to the “testing of a new hypersonic ‘Crazy Ivan’ warhead…
Space News asks, in an editorial, why MDA has classified basic budget and schedule information for the third Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) satellite. Not only is the non-technical information classified, but the reasons for which it was classified…
For some reason, MDA has made the 2000 edition of Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat insanely difficult to find. Here it is.
Dick Garwin has an article on missile defense in Scientific American. Garwin concludes that “despite the more than $80 billion spent by the U.S. on missile defense since 1985, this system will not provide significant protection for many years, if ever.”
The Independent reports that Washington and London have secretly agreed to place a US missile defense interceptor site at RAF Fylingdales in the UK. London insists Washington made no formal request to site the missiles, but The Independent reports a…
MDA (operating in its little know role as a 527 for the Bush Administration) is sticking interceptors in the frozen tundra of Alaska and calling it a missile defense. Not that the thing works: MDA has delayed the next flight…
The GAO just released a shocking report, Diploma Mills: Diploma Mills Are Easily Created and Some Have Issued Bogus Degrees at Government Expense to Federal Employees, that finds “28 [GS-15 (or equivalent) and above] employees [from eight agencies] listed degrees…
Al Kamen of the Washington Post takes the piss out of the Missile Defense Agency’s Terry Little for his memo writing skills. Kamen calls a recent memo by Little, Kinetic Energy Interceptor Program Manager, “a wonderful example” of bureaucratic memos…
Space News on Monday reports similar information to my August 20 post, announcing that MDA will (1) remove the kill vehicle from NFIRE, (2) use the NFIRE KV as a ground-based risk reduction asset, and (3) slip the launch date…
Remarks by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at the Seventh Annual Space and Missile Defense Conference are now available from the Department of Defense. CDI’s Victoria Samson, who attended the gathering, noticed a mildly Orwellian editorial decision: One part of…
