Story by Michael Smith | Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division | 05.21.2025
Michael Perry, a technical representative with Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, reflects on 35 years of federal service supporting aircraft and missile programs across the Department of Defense. Now stationed at Raytheon’s Redstone Missile Integration Facility in Huntsville, Alabama, Perry helps oversee the Navy’s Standard Missile assembly and recertification process, reinforcing......
Story by Ronald Bailey | U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | 02.26.2021
In early 2020, as COVID-19 spread rapidly across the globe, no cases had yet been reported in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. To protect the islands, the Marshallese government suspended all incoming international travel, Feb. 26, 2020, which affected U.S. personnel coming to work on the U.S. Army Garrison-Kwajalein Atoll and the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s Ronald......
Story by Mark Wright | Missile Defense Agency | 10.26.2018
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and U.S. Navy sailors aboard USS John Finn (DDG-113) successfully conducted an intercept of a medium-range ballistic missile target with a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA missile during a flight test off the west coast of Hawaii....
Story by Leah Garton | Missile Defense Agency | 02.03.2017
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the Japan Ministry of Defense (MoD), and U.S. Navy sailors aboard USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) successfully conducted a flight test Feb. 3 (Hawaii Standard Time), resulting in the first intercept of a ballistic missile target using the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA off the west coast of Hawaii....
