We believe the Navy Theater Wide missile defense program is crucial for two reasons.
Biden said he is "deeply" involved in the review of the missile defense program.
The Clinton Administration transformed the missile defense program it inherited from Reagan and successor George H.
It is striking therefore that now-President Clinton appears set to reduce dramatically the U.S. strategic defense program.
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Moscow is threatening to stop cooperation with NATO on its missile defense program.
Specifically, Putin and Company will demand a veto over America's missile defense program.
Such considerations argue for an invigorated strategic defense program aimed at deploying such space-based defenses at the earliest possible time.
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said last year that the missile defense program was aimed at deterring threats from Iran.
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One immediate action would be to throw more resources behind the Navy's so-called "third-tier" defense program based around Aegis cruisers.
The TRW system in whose development Dr. Schwartz participated is not being utilized in the current National Missile Defense program.
Russian officials have been up in arms about the new missile defense program of NATO since the start of the year.
The impact on Boeing is somewhat more complex than for the predominantly non-military supplier base due to heavy disproportionate defense program cuts.
Last year, the Obama administration reversed course and canceled the missile defense program that the Czechs and the Poles had agreed to host.
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The United States wants to expand its missile-defense program to Europe.
" He declared that "a robust, sea-based, lower-tier theater ballistic missile defense capability, found in the Navy Area Missile Defense Program, is critical to reducing operational risk to the warfighter.
One of the things that we did last year was take on a defense program that many thought we were crazy to try to go after and try to cut.
It's fully equipped with sea-based missile defense systems, has long been the Navy's primary ship for the sea-based missile defense program and has the technology needed for the operation, officials said.
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Putin's refraining from strenuous objections to U.S. withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty appears likely to be rewarded with some sort of cooperative role in the American missile defense program.
The current tensions have renewed focus on the whole U.S. missile defense program and we asked Nathan Hodge of Jane's Defense Weekly to come in and remind us what it's all about.
The funding is coming from Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy ( ARPA-E), which the energy department launched in 2009 and modeled after a Department of Defense program that supports early-stage technology research.
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U.S. missile defense program from the very beginning.
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We all want a strong national defense program.
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Turner -- who backs the elimination of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction -- wanted to know whether the administration has considered ridding the world of weapons of mass destruction and supporting nuclear nonproliferation, rather than pursuing a missile defense program that would cost billions.
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Like every other defense program -- and, for that matter, any other government activity -- responsible officials and their contractors must be held to the highest standards of integrity and technical performance when it comes to what is, arguably, one of the Nation's most important initiatives: the effort to defend the American people against ballistic missile attack.
The March arrival of the Monterey in the eastern Med is a good time to take stock of how the U.S. missile defense program has changed over time, and consider the way in which changing threats and technologies have transformed the role of the Navy in missile defense from that of a disinterested bystander to a key player.
The Defense Department has not announced what will be discussed, but Cartwright is the point man for the missile defense shield program.
Unfortunately, the same questions might well be posed today about another aerospace technology in which the United States currently enjoys a decisive competitive advantage -- thanks to a farsighted and ambitious Defense Department program and the congressional support it has long received: the V-22 "Osprey" tiltrotor aircraft.
It seems unlikely that even with his electoral landslide Ronald Reagan would have been able to accomplish his vital defense modernization program, whose legacy the U.S. military and successive Presidents have continued to draw upon to this day, without making that initiative a centerpiece of his 1980 election campaign.
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