{"id":17726,"date":"2018-08-08T23:37:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T23:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2018\/08\/08\/mda-not-averse-to-space-based-interceptors-its-director-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:37:27","slug":"mda-not-averse-to-space-based-interceptors-its-director-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/smd\/2018\/08\/08\/mda-not-averse-to-space-based-interceptors-its-director-says\/","title":{"rendered":"MDA \u2018not averse\u2019 to space-based interceptors, its director says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HUNTSVILLE, Ala. \u2014 The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is \u201cnot averse\u201d to developing and fielding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/smd\/2018\/08\/08\/mda-director-provides-rough-sketch-of-possible-space-based-missile-defense-sensor-layer\/\" target=_blank>space-based missile defense<\/a> interceptors, its director, Gen. Samuel Greaves, said Aug. 8 at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While it has appeared, in a way, like Congress has been pushing the development of space-based missile defense interceptors on an unenthusiastic MDA, Greaves stressed that the capability was part of many discussions within the MDA and the Pentagon.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2018\/08\/05\/congress-intensifies-push-for-reluctant-mda-to-focus-on-space-based-missile-defense\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1_cover_mda.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Congress intensifies push for reluctant MDA to focus on space-based missile defense<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">A space-based sensor layer\u2019s persistent vantage point would provide hostile missile tracking from birth to death, a capability far beyond that of ground sensors.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are developing options to pursue that capability if the nation decides that is what we should be doing,\u201d Greaves said. \u201cCongress has already written some language that would push us, direct us, guide us in that area, so it\u2019s part of the overall suite of activities we are pursuing as part of our portfolio.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Greaves added that should not take away from the agency\u2019s current priorities. \u201cThe liability of the systems we have got in place today, we cannot take our eyes off of that; expanding our capacity and capability, developing our sensor suite and dealing with the advanced threat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress mandates the development of the intercept layer for which it pushed in FY18. In that same fiscal year, the language requirement was contingent on what could be directed in the Missile Defense Review. This time, the legislation states the intercept layer will be developed, whether the review directs the activity or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A space-based interceptor, if deployed, would go after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/newsletters\/daily-news-roundup\/2018\/07\/27\/congress-says-pentagon-must-come-up-with-boost-phase-missile-defense-plan-next-year\/\" target=_blank>ballistic missiles in the boost phase<\/a> or in the post-boost phase of flight before the re-entry vehicle has deployed, or it could go after a deployed re-entry vehicle, Michael Griffin, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, told reporters at the symposium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What it can\u2019t do<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2018\/07\/16\/3-thoughts-on-hypersonic-weapons-from-the-pentagons-technology-chief\/\" target=_blank> is reasonably go after hypersonic threats,<\/a> he explained, \u201cbecause hypersonic threats that we have seen to date are flying at altitudes low enough within the atmosphere. So effectively your space-based interceptor would have to itself be a re-entry vehicle; you would have to survive re-entry in order to go after the hypersonic target, and that may not be a bridge too far, but it\u2019s a pretty far away bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/smd\/2018\/08\/07\/hyten-to-address-russian-and-chinese-missile-threats-its-all-about-the-sensors\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-837213998.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Hyten: To address Russian and Chinese missile threats, it\u2019s all about the sensors<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The head of U.S. Strategic Command says the biggest focus for missile defense has to be sensor development.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Griffin, however, a space-based interceptor going after ballistic missiles, especially in the boost phase of flight, is \u201ca relatively easy technological challenge,\u201d he said. \u201cThe difficulty we have had in the past is centered around policy. It has not been the policy of the United States to deploy such systems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And while a space-based intercept layer is something that has been studied for decades, the lack of its actual development may have been \u201ca victim of unrealistically high, uninformed cost estimates,\u201d Griffin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have made my own preliminary cost estimates on what systems would cost, and I can\u2019t figure out a way to make them cost as much as some of the numbers I\u2019ve seen tossed around the media,\u201d he said. \u201cI have seen such estimates,\u201d that have been in the tens of billions of dollars range, \u201cand I don\u2019t believe them to be well-founded.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MDA has been asked to look at a potential space-based interceptor, Keith Englander, the agency\u2019s director of engineering, said during an Aug. 8 presentation at the symposium. 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