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<p>An Army air-defense unit successfully carried out a radar exercise in Washington last week to improve efforts to intercept hijacked airliners and other enemy aircraft.</p> <p>The exercise by the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, was code-named Clear Skies and took place during two days last week, defense officials told The Washington Times.</p>

  United States Department of DefenseNews TranscriptOn the web: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2002/t06252002_t0625kadish.html Media contact: media@defenselink.mil or +1 (703) 697-5131 Public contact: public@defenselink.mil or +1 (703) 428-0711 Presenter: Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald T. Kadish, director Missile Defense Agency Tuesday, June 25, 2002 - 1:30 p.m. EDT Lt. Gen Kadish Special Briefing on Missile Defense (Special Briefing on missile defense. Slides shown during this briefing are located at http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2002/g020625-D-6570C.html .) Staff: Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us this afternoon. Today we welcome back to the briefing room Lieutenant General Ronald Kadish, the director of the Missile Defense Agency. I kind...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon ( news - web sites) will conduct a very aggressive U.S. missile defense testing plan over the next two years but will cloak the results in secrecy to foil potential attackers, the head of the program said on Tuesday. The military will inform Congress on progress in the controversial $48 billion-plus development program while withholding details from the public in areas such as U.S. ability to overcome decoys used in any missile attack, Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish told reporters. "We will not give our adversaries a free ride as we develop the system,"...

<p>Republicans are prepared to fight a plan by Senate Democrats to cut $800 million from President George W. Bush’s proposal to develop a national missile defense system.</p> <p>The battle could come as early as Tuesday as the Senate continues debating a measure that would authorize — but not finance — $393 billion in military programs for next year. Bush has threatened to veto the bill if the missile funds are not restored.</p>

The Claremont Institute This is the print version of http://www.claremont.org/writings/precepts/20020615kennedy.html. The ABM Treaty Is Gone, What Now? By Brian T. Kennedy Posted June 15, 2002 Six months ago President Bush announced that the United States would withdraw, as was our right, from the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972. The ABM Treaty, signed between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., prevented the construction and deployment of a national missile defense. President Bush believes, rightly, that it is in the supreme interest of the United States that one be built as soon as possible. On Thursday, at midnight, the six months was...

USAF Teams With Industry To Develop Laser Guns For Jet FightersKirtland AFB June 5, 2002 Exploring the feasibility of using high-energy lasers on fighter aircraft is the aim of an agreement signed Friday (May 31) between the Air Force Research Laboratory here and Lockheed Martin of Fort Worth, Texas. The first Airborne Laser (ABL), a highly altered Boeing 747-400 series freighter, is ready for airworthiness testing following a 2-1/2 -year modification program at Boeing’s Wichita, Kan., facility. Shown here where the modification work was done, complete with its distinctive 11,500-pound nose turret, the aircraft will be tested to prove it...

What's Next For Navy Missile Defense ROBERT WALL and DAVID A. FULGHUM/WASHINGTON The Pentagon's decision to kill the Area-Wide ballistic missile defense program opens the door for competitors to propose a new approach to enable the Navy to eventually field a point-defense missile shield. The program cancellation is good news for other Pentagon projects that stand to receive some of Area Wide's money. High on the list is the Airborne Laser project, which is slated to get about $70 million this year alone. Another beneficiary would be Aegis radar improvements that aren't related to ballistic missile defense. Navy Area development,...

Aviation Week & Space Technology: March 25, 2002 Missile Defense's New Look To Emerge This Summer ROBERT WALL/WASHINGTON Airborne Laser, other projects get makeover as Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty restrictions fall by the wayside The Pentagon's plans for an expanded anti- missile shield should crystallize this summer when a recently anointed team of industry experts is to express its views on a new missile defense architecture. Senior Defense Dept. officials have been busy, in recent months, creating a new management and oversight structure for missile defense endeavors. Moves included establishing two industry panels-- one led by Boeing focused on system engineering...

Missile Defense Test Score Goes Three-in-a-row By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 18, 2002 -- A ballistic missile interceptor successfully destroyed a test target March 16 in what Missile Defense Agency officials hope is becoming an almost routine occurrence. The Ground-based Midcourse Defense System's exoatmospheric kill vehicle vaporized a mock nuclear warhead on impact 140 miles over the Pacific. The hit-to-kill vehicle distinguished the mock warhead from decoys and other debris. The March 16 test was the third success in a row and fourth out of six tries. Missile Defense Agency officials said the test was in...

Ballistic missile defense has undergone fundamental changes over the past few months. Global politics, technology, budgets and inter-service rivalries are all playing their part in shaping the new landscape. Some-where in this mixture are the needs of the military forces and civilian populations that face an increasing threat, writes Mark Hewish In a series of recent interlinked moves, the US has reshuffled the cards in its ballistic missile defense (BMD) pack. The outcome is still uncertain, with shifts in direction occurring almost daily. In January 2002, the country's Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) was redesignated the Missile Defense Agency (MDA)....