Attachments A and B explain how the BMDO's own data from the IFT-1A test shows that the BMDO falsely represented the results of the IFT-1A test as showing that an
Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) can tell warheads from simple balloon decoys.
A December 2002 attempt using the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system to intercept a target at night failed when the
Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) failed to separate from its boost vehicle, noted Christie in his FY03 unclassified report on the ballistic-missile-defense (BMD) system.
Raytheon, presently developing the
Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (the weapon part) of the NMD system, co-hosted a fundraiser on Santa Monica pier for the members of the conservative Democrat "Blue Dog" caucus.
Missile Defense Agency, said an investigation into a 2010 flight test failure has prompted the agency to suspend production of the
Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle. O'Reilly also said that oversight of the Army's Patriot air and missile defense system could move to his agency by 2013.
The test, designated Integrated Flight Test-9 (IFT-9), involved an interception of a test target by an interceptor launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands that deployed an
Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV), made by Raytheon (Lexington, MA).
You asked us, as a follow-on to our recent review of the early sensor tests for the
exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV), to look into the circumstances surrounding Boeing Lead Systems Integrator's (LSI) selection of Raytheon's EKV device for further testing.
The line includes products such as the Standard Missile-3 sea-based system and
Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle, and the company says it also serves to give the U.S.