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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is a component of the United States government's Department of Defense responsible for developing a comprehensive defense against ballistic missiles. It had its origins in the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) which was established in 1983 by Ronald Reagan and which was headed by Lt. General James Alan Abrahamson .
The physical base where NSWCDD is located became officially known as the Naval Support Activity Dahlgren (NSA Dahlgren) in 2003 when Naval Installations Command assumed all base operating functions, leaving NSWCDD as an installation tenant, [2] however, the name NSWCDD or NSWC is still commonly used to refer to the base.
The real estate information business was sold in early 2011. MDA bought Space Systems/Loral from Loral Space & Communications in 2012., [9] leading to OTPP reducing its stake to less than 10%. [8] MDA bought DigitalGlobe in 2017, and rebranded as Maxar Technologies.; [10] the company moved its headquarters to Colorado, United States. [11]
MDA will then be a subsidiary of US-based Maxar by 2019. [34] 2018: Announced acquisition of Neptec for $32 million. [35] 2019: Completed U.S. domestication, [clarification needed] whereby the parent company is now incorporated in the U.S. state of Delaware [36] 2020: MDA is sold to a consortium of Canadian investors led by Northern Private ...
Since the mid-1990s, there has been extensive and growing co-operation between MDA and the ICRC including, among other things, a $2.2 million expenditure on strengthening ties between the two organizations, the signing in 2000 of a two-year co-operation statement, the permanent placement of an ICRC co-operation officer in MDA headquarters, and ...
Clickable map of Colorado area codes in blue (with bordering states). [1] The U.S. state of Colorado is served by five telephone area codes of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). Area code 303 is the original area code assigned to the entire state when the first nationwide telephone numbering plan was created in 1947.
The motto in Latin: Custos Custodum Ipsorum means "Guard of the Guardians Themselves" in English. The Aegis ballistic missile defense system (Aegis BMD or ABMD), [1] also known as Sea-Based Midcourse, is a Missile Defense Agency program under the United States Department of Defense developed to provide missile defense against short and intermediate-range ballistic missiles.
Dahlgren system and dahlgrenogram, created by Swedish-Danish botanist Rolf M. T. Dahlgren (1932–1987) USS Dahlgren (TB-9) , Torpedo Boat No. 9/TB-9/Coast Torpedo Boat No. 4 6945 Dahlgren (1980 FZ3), Main-belt Asteroid discovered on March 16, 1980 by Lagerkvist, C.-