{"id":20861,"date":"2022-02-03T00:31:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T00:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/02\/03\/budget-uncertainty-throttles-mdas-development-of-a-hypersonic-missile-interceptor\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:54:10","slug":"budget-uncertainty-throttles-mdas-development-of-a-hypersonic-missile-interceptor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2022\/02\/03\/budget-uncertainty-throttles-mdas-development-of-a-hypersonic-missile-interceptor\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget uncertainty \u2018throttles\u2019 MDA\u2019s development of a hypersonic missile interceptor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Missile Defense Agency\u2019s plan to field an interceptor against incoming hypersonic weapons has hit a funding snag, the agency\u2019s director said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MDA in November <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2021\/11\/20\/heres-the-three-companies-selected-to-design-hypersonic-missile-interceptors-for-mda\/\">selected three companies to design a Glide Phase Interceptor<\/a> that would hit enemy hypersonic missiles during the glide phase, or the flat path they take while en route to their targets. MDA awarded Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Missiles and Defense other transactional agreements for an \u201caccelerated concept design\u201d phase of the program, Defense News reported at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked about the path forward for the three companies developing their solutions, MDA Director Vice Adm. Jon Hill told Defense News on Wednesday he had little news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe best answer I can give you in this environment today: \u2026 We live in a world right now where we don\u2019t have current year appropriations, and we also don\u2019t have insight into the following year\u2019s topline. So unfortunately, that throttles this program,\u201d he said after speaking at an American Society of Naval Engineers conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not a technology issue,\u201d he added. \u201cIt is purely a financial problem. And so I can\u2019t say much more other than the fact that we\u2019ve got three great proposals on the table that we\u2019re evaluating now, and that\u2019s going to inform us as we move forward to the next step.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MDA in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/smd\/2020\/08\/04\/mda-pauses-defensive-hypersonic-missile-design-effort-to-refocus-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">2020 paused its efforts<\/a> to develop a counter-hypersonics missile, with Hill saying at the time that the organization needed to refocus and seek a near-term solution that could feed into a more \u201celegant\u201d solution down the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1792\" height=\"828\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5459.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5459.jpg.jpg 1792w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5459.jpg.jpg?resize=300,139 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5459.jpg.jpg?resize=768,355 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5459.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,473 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5459.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,710 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1792px) 100vw, 1792px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A depiction of the Missile Defense Agency&#8217;s approach to layered hypersonic missile defense. (MDA slide)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/smd\/2021\/08\/13\/missile-defense-agency-dials-up-the-speed-in-quest-for-hypersonic-interceptor\/\" target=\"_blank\">What MDA came up with<\/a> builds off its current infrastructure for ballistic missile defense. Hill said in his Feb. 2 Combat Systems Symposium speech those existing sensors and communications systems could see hypersonic missiles, but not well enough to create a proper fire solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re not at zero\u201d today, he said. So MDA and the U.S. Navy took a close look at what the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system could and couldn\u2019t do against hypersonics. An analysis of alternatives outlined what was still needed for sensing, command and control and weapons, Hill said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A video Hill played at the conference outlined a potential engagement: Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensors would detect a missile launch, as well as the first-, second- and third-stage separation. The HBTSS system continuously feeds data to the Ballistic Missile Defense System Overhead Persistent Infrared Architecture, or BOA, which uses the real-time data to create a track of the hypersonic missile. The Aegis BMD system on a Navy destroyer receives the track, plans a solution and fires the glide phase interceptor, which Hill said would need even greater speed and agility than the hypersonic missiles it would knock down. That glide phase interceptor would be connected to HBTSS for updated tracking data once it left the ship, and the interceptor would kill the threat before it got too close to its intended target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hill said some of the key pieces are already in place, but MDA and its joint force partners are trying to build and field what\u2019s left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A slide in his presentation noted MDA and the U.S. Space Force plan to launch HBTSS into orbit in fiscal 2023 for a demonstration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest gap, then, remains the interceptor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, targets such as aircraft carriers aren\u2019t totally unprotected. The destroyers that sail with them and protect the capital asset are equipped with the Standard Missile-6, which can act as a terminal interceptor \u2014 meaning they stop the missile on its final approach to the target, rather than farther away during the glide phase. The ships would retain this SM-6 terminal intercept capability going forward, but Hill said adding the glide phase interceptor to the ships\u2019 magazine would push the missile defense shield farther away from high-value assets like aircraft carriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Jen Judson contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Glide Phase Interceptor would round out MDA&#8217;s plans to turn the ballistic missile defense architecture into one optimized for hypersonic missile defense as well. 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