Hypersonic Missile Defense: Issues for Congress | Congressional Research Service (Feb. 2025)

Hypersonic Missile Defense: Issues for Congress

"...Some analysts have suggested that space-based sensor layers—integrated with tracking and targeting systems to direct high-performance interceptors or directed energy weapons—could theoretically present viable options for defending against hypersonic weapons. The 2019 Missile Defense Review notes that “such sensors take advantage of the large area viewable from space for improved tracking and potentially targeting of advanced threats, including hypersonic [weapons].”..."

Reference: crsreports.congress.gov .

U.S. Could Bolster Missile Defense with New Sensors Within a Year, NORTHCOM Says

U.S. Could Bolster Missile Defense with New Sensors Within a Year, NORTHCOM Says

"...a single integrated grid of sensors from under the sea to space to bolster its air and missile defenses, U.S. Northern Command’s top general told the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday.

“The first and most critical part [of this defense] is detection” to protect the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii..."

Reference: U.S. Naval Institute .

Missile Defense Agency asks industry for American ‘Iron Dome’ concepts

Article Title: Missile Defense Agency asks industry for American ‘Iron Dome’ concepts

Article Excerpt: "...The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has issued a call for industry ideas on how it can implement President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 “Iron Dome for America” Executive Order — a surprisingly fast turn around on a Pentagon program.

The Request for Information (RF) comes just four days after Trump’s order mandated Pentagon development of a comprehensive “shield” to repel any aerial attack on the US homeland. The RFI asks interested vendors to show and tell relevant capabilities by Feb. 28. ..."

Reference Source: breakingdefense.com