The Missile Defense Agency is scheduled to host a public meeting in Carthage, N.Y., on Aug. 19 to allow local residents to voice their views on the potential basing of missile defense interceptors at nearby Fort Drum, according to a release. Language in the Fiscal 2013 defense policy act instructed the Pentagon to conduct an environmental assessment (e.g., impact on air and water quality, noise levels) of operating a Continental United States Interceptor Site, or CIS, at one of four locations in the eastern United States: Fort Drum; Camp Ravenna, Ohio; Fort Custer, Mich.; and Kittery, Maine. Rounds of information exchange with the public are one component of the assessment process. Similar meetings have already taken place in Ohio and Maine and are scheduled in Michigan later this month. The United States already bases anti-missile missiles at Fort Greely, Alaska, and at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., to protect the country from a limited, long-range missile attack by North Korea or Iran. An additional interceptor site would enhance that protection, but there’s been no decision yet to construct the CIS, according to the agency. The environmental assessment is scheduled for completion in late 2015.
NASA Boss: Race to Moon Has National Security Stakes
Sept. 15, 2026
NASA is pushing hard to get astronauts back to the moon by 2028—and the urgency is driven in no small part by the national security implications of doing so before China does, Administrator Jared Isaacman said Sept. 15.
