Missile Defense Project

Authoritative analysis on missile defense and related issues

The Missile Defense Project at CSIS looks at a wide range of policy, program, and strategic issues related to missile defense. Technological and geopolitical factors have driven increased global supply and demand for high-velocity, unmanned, missile-based weapons and their corresponding counters. Besides more recognized cruise and ballistic missile threats, global missile proliferation now consists of a spectrum including precision-guided rockets, anti-ship missiles, air defenses, hypersonic delivery systems, and counterspace weapons.  
 

About the Missile Defense Project

Learn more about the Missile Defense Project and the network of experts, staff, and non-resident affiliates who contribute to our analysis.

Missile Defense Logo

Contact Information

Media Queries

Featured Analysis

Photo: CSIS Missile Defense Project

Photo: CSIS Missile Defense Project

Getting on Track: Space and Airborne Sensors for Hypersonic Missile Defense

The Department of Defense is racing to build a constellation of satellites for tracking elusive hypersonic missiles. As these first satellites enter orbit, how should policymakers measure success? In a new report, CSIS unpacks the tradeoffs involved and pitfalls to avoid.

Report by Masao Dahlgren — December 18, 2023

Related

Latest Analysis

Past Events

Photo: Army photo by Capt. Adan Cazarez

Photo: Army photo by Capt. Adan Cazarez

The Defense of Guam

July 30, 2024 • 1:45 – 2:45 pm EDT
Video On Demand
Hosted by International Security Program
Photo: Courtesy of Missile Defense Agency

Photo: Courtesy of Missile Defense Agency

MDA and the 2025 Budget

June 6, 2024 • 10:00 – 11:15 am EDT
Video On Demand
Hosted by Missile Defense Project

Featured Microsite

Long-Range Strike Systems

Missile Threat

Missile Threat brings together a wide range of information and analysis relating to the proliferation of cruise and ballistic missiles around the world and the air and missile defense systems designed to defeat them.

View Microsite

In the News 8 of 637 results

Show More

All Missile Defense Project Content

Filter by

81 - 90 of 285 results

A Bipartisan Call To Stay The Course On US Homeland Missile Defense

The Missile Defense Review sets “the stage for a high-stakes policy debate between those who value missile defense as an enabler of US grand strategy, and those who fear enhanced missile defense may start an arms race with Russia and China,” write Walter Slocombe and Robert Soofer.

Commentary — September 10, 2021

Tracking Missile Threats

To help navigate the wide world of missilery, the CSIS Missile Defense Project recently released a newly upgraded website to track and explain both missile threats and missile defenses alike.

Commentary by Ian Williams — August 12, 2021

Rethinking Homeland Defense

On August 17, the CSIS Missile Defense Project welcomed General Glen D. VanHerck, Commander of NORAD and USNORTHCOM, to discuss his approach to rapidly developing and fielding capabilities for the defense of North America.

Commentary — August 6, 2021

MDA and the 2022 Budget

The CSIS Missile Defense Project is pleased to welcome back Vice Admiral Jon Hill, Director of the Missile Defense Agency, to speak on the Agency's FY 2022 programs, priorities, and budgets.

Event — June 22, 2021

Top Missile Defense Leaders Brief Senate Committee on Programs

Dr. Rob Soofer, Senior Associate, CSIS testified before the U.S. Senate Armed Services, Strategic Forces Subcommittee on missile defense strategy, policies, and programs. He was accompanied by Vice Admiral Jon Hill, Lieutenant General Daniel Karbler, General Glen VanHerck, Ms. Leonor Tomero, and Mr. Ankit Panda.

Congressional Testimony by Robert Soofer — June 9, 2021

Hypersonic Strike and Defense

Please join the CSIS Missile Defense Project on Wednesday, June 2 for a conversation with Mike White, Principal Director for Hypersonics in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering OUSD(R&E).

Event — June 2, 2021

Missile Defense Is Compatible With Arms Control

What will it take for Russia and the United States to make progress on arms control? In announcing the Biden administration’s intent to extend the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) for another five years, Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin offered a hint. He noted that the next negotiation must include all of Russian and American nuclear…

Commentary — April 29, 2021

What to Look for in the FY 2022 Defense Budget Request

The Biden administration is expected to release its first budget request for FY 2022 in May. The request marks the first budget since FY 2011 that is not subject to the discretionary spending limits imposed by the Budget Control Act. While the defense budget request for FY 2022 was developed predominantly under the previous administration,…

Commentary — April 29, 2021