The plan also calls for using blimps for detection of complex threats, expanding the current Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, or GMD, at Fort Greely, Alaska, and adding a brand new ...

The program was scrapped in the early 1990s at the end of the Cold War, but elements of it live on in today's Missile Defense Agency, which oversees the ground-based midcourse defense system.

Its offerings include the Avenger Air Defense System, Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense and Ground-Based Midcourse Defense. Boeing boasts a long-term (three to five years) earnings growth rate of 17.4%.

The Boeing Company BA: It manufactures various missile defense systems, including the Ground-based Midcourse Defense, Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense and Avenger. Boeing-built and supported air ...

China and Russia have both developed next-generation, highly-maneuverable hypersonic missiles that are very difficult to intercept—nearly impossible with the ground-based midcourse defense ...

Observers also point out that the US already has missile defense programs in place, including the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD ...