The Missile Defense Agency has launched a project that aims to set the technical groundwork for a potential live-fire demonstration of a domestic cruise missile defense architecture by working first to execute simulated events connecting Army and Navy battle management tools with the guided-missile launcher system used to defend Washington, DC, 24/7. The project is called Cruise Missile Defense of the Homeland NCR-IADS and MDA is pulling in three defense contractors to support the effort, modifying existing contracts last November...