BMD in U.S. Strategy ument to its congressionally mandated National Defense trategy in 2022. The Trump Administration also published an MDR in 2019. These two most recent MDRs describe the …

Since 2002, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has been developing the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system to defend the U.S. homeland against a limited ballistic missile attack from …

The mission of MDA is to develop and deploy a layered MDS to defend the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends from missile attacks in all phases of flight. The MDA manages the MDS …

This draft MDR therefore provides options to the Department of Defense (DOD) and guidance to the broader U.S. government as it develops and fields an integrated missile defense architecture...

The Ground-based Midcourse Defense element is deployed to defend the U.S. homeland against long-range ballistic missile threats from countries like North Korea and Iran.

provide a meaningful defense against limited missile attacks. It could target a single missile launch from any point on the Earth, and potentially up to about 5 missiles launched from a characterist

China and Russia are developing an array of novel delivery systems to exploit gaps in current U.S. ballistic missile defenses, but traditional ballistic missiles—which are guided during powered flight …