News From MEADS

Lockheed Martin has begun integration testing on the third completed Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) battle manager at its facility in Huntsville, Ala. Integration testing on the third battle manager will continue throughout 2012 in support of a ballistic missile intercept test planned at White Sands Missile Range in 2013. Two other battle managers [...]Read More »

The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) successfully completed its first flight test today at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) MEADS Certified Missile Round was employed during the test along with the MEADS lightweight launcher and battle manager. The test demonstrated an unprecedented over-the-shoulder launch of the MSE missile [...]Read More »

The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) system elements have successfully performed a simulated engagement against real-world air and representative missile threats demonstrating MEADS’ plug-and-fight capabilities. In the simulated test, the MEADS battle manager demonstrated a revolutionary network-centric open architecture that allows any combination of sensors and launchers to be organized into single or multiple [...]Read More »

The National Armaments Directors of Germany, Italy and the United States approved a contract amendment that funds two flight intercept tests of the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS). The amended contract also provides for a Launcher Missile Characterization Test and a Sensor Characterization Test before the MEADS Design and Development contract ends in 2014. [...]Read More »

ORLANDO/MUNICH/ROME, October 24, 2011 – After completing extensive system integration testing, the first Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) launcher has arrived at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., ready to demonstrate its advanced capabilities. The lightweight MEADS launcher is easily transportable, tactically mobile and capable of rapid reload. It carries up to eight PAC-3 Missile [...]Read More »

MEADS International (MI) has begun integration testing on the first completed Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) battle manager at the MEADS Verification Facility in Orlando, Fla. The MEADS battle manager controls a revolutionary network-centric open architecture that allows any combination of sensors and launchers to be organized into a single air and missile defense [...]Read More »

Recent articles from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a group of U.S. taxwatch organizations continue to distort the financial benefits of the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program. We wholeheartedly agree with their objectives to make taxpayer spending more productive, but ours is a larger vision about how that might be done. [...]Read More »

ORLANDO, Fla., September 13, 2011 – The Medium Extended Air Defense System’s (MEADS) Integrated Launcher Electronics System (ILES) recently executed a simulated missile launch, marking another in a series of significant test accomplishments. The successful ILES test moves the MEADS program closer to its first major test event in November at White Sands Missile Range, [...]Read More »

The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program has successfully completed a Battle Management Command, Control, Communications and Computers and Intelligence (BMC4I) software design review in Huntsville, Ala. The review validated software design and functionalities needed for upcoming MEADS flight tests and demonstrations.  This is another important milestone as the program matures to deliver needed [...]Read More »

The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) International (MI) won the James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award.  The U.S. Defense Security Service (DSS) annually presents the award for demonstrated excellence in industrial security.   Members of the MI Security team received the award from DSS during the National Classification Management Society’s Annual Seminar in [...]Read More »

The National Armaments Directors of Germany, Italy and the United States have approved a revised set of development objectives for the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program, including two intercept flight tests by 2014. The refocused development program ensures that key national technologies will be demonstrated and that MEADS will readily mature into the [...]Read More »

The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) successfully passed another hardware milestone when its second Launcher Platform Group (LPG) completed formal acceptance testing during March in Dello, Italy. MEADS is a ground-mobile air and missile defense system that incorporates the hit-to-kill PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) Missile, 360-degree radars, netted-distributed battle management/communication centers and high-firepower [...]Read More »

Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] recently delivered the first intra-fire unit communications kit qualified for use with the tri-national Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS). This kit, also known as the MEADS Internal Communications Subsystem (MICS) Message Routing Subsystem, will support MEADS launcher integration, test and qualification. MICS provides secure tactical communications between the MEADS sensors, [...]Read More »

Marco Riccetti has been named technical director for MEADS International (MI), the prime contractor for the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS).  Riccetti joins the program management team in Orlando from MBDA Italia S.p.A. MEADS is a next-generation, ground-mobile air and missile defense system that incorporates the hit-to-kill PAC-3 MSE Missile, 360-degree radars, netted and [...]Read More »

It’s truly amazing how much false information is being written about the MEADS program. The truth is MEADS will save the U.S. tens of billions of dollars over the next 20 years and we believe a cost-effectiveness analysis by the Government Accountability Office can provide an unbiased independent substantiation. Here are the facts: To date, [...]Read More »

The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) moved closer to demonstrating capabilities not addressed by any previous or planned Air and Missile Defense system today with the opening of the MEADS Test Facilities at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), NM. Officials from the NATO Medium Extended Air Defense System Management Agency (NAMEADSMA) and WSMR jointly [...]Read More »

The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program has successfully completed milestone tests as the first Multifunction Fire Control Radar (MFCR) advances toward system tests this year at Pratica di Mare air force base in Italy. The advanced MEADS X-band MFCR employs active phased array technology using transmit/receive modules developed in Germany.  The radar provides [...]Read More »