MDA looking to integrate European allies into missile defense architecture

By Justin Doubleday / October 5, 2016 at 11:27 AM
The Missile Defense Agency is examining how allied countries in Europe could be looped into the Aegis missile defense architecture there, according to a defense official. MDA is studying how the Netherlands' new SMART-L long-range naval radar could be integrated into U.S. ballistic missile defense architectures, namely the Aegis Ashore system in Europe, according to Rear Adm. Johnny Wolfe, the program executive officer for Aegis BMD at MDA. He said the agency is also looking at how to loop the...

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