Defense & National Security

Missile Warning and Missile Defense: The Next Generation

Modern missile defense demands a secure, connected, and always-on enterprise capable of operating at speed across complex, multi-domain environments. Supporting next-generation initiatives like Missile Defense System–Next and Golden Dome, this approach enables rapid sensing, decision-making, and immediate response.

As a trusted mission partner, Amentum combines deep technical expertise with proven execution to strengthen resilience, secure critical infrastructure, and accelerate mission outcomes. Through Amentum Missile Defense NeXt (MDX) and the Amentum NORAD Operations Division (ANOD), we deliver critical capabilities—including digital engineering, cybersecurity, and agile sustainment—to keep mission systems continuously operational, protected, and evolving ahead of emerging threats.

A Standard Missile-3 is fired from a Vertical Launching System on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam as part of a Missile Defense Agency flight experiment December 10, 2024. Image credit: DoD

Mission Foundation

  • Secure, Resilient Digital Backbone: Seamlessly connects sensors, operators, and command-and-control systems.
  • Always-On Enterprise: Enables real-time situational awareness and rapid operational action.
  • Built for Contested Environments: Engineered to operate across multi-domain battlefields, including space, ground, and cyber.

Core Capabilities

  • Critical Infrastructure and Advanced Networks: Amentum enterprise experts modernize legacy networks into virtualized, software-defined environments. By pivoting to network configurations driven by mission intent rather than manual, physical constraints, we implement zero-trust architectures, cloud-enabled platforms, and continuous cyber monitoring. This delivers unprecedented reliability, agility, and cost savings.
  • Digital Engineering: We utilize advanced digital engineering methodologies to design, model, and validate complex systems virtually, accelerating deployment timelines and reducing lifecycle risks.
  • Data-Driven Decision Advantage: AI/ML, advanced analytics, and high-performance computing transform massive data streams into immediate, actionable insight.
  • Modular & Scalable Architecture: Flexible, multi-mission systems designed to evolve alongside rapidly changing threat requirements.

Our Method

  • Outcome-Focused: Models emphasizing speed, scalability, and reduced operational risk.
  • Vendor-Agnostic Execution: A methodology-first approach that ensures flexibility and eliminates proprietary vendor lock-in.
  • Accelerated Capability Delivery: Advanced modeling, simulation, and automation to field technology faster.
  • Rigorous Lifecycle Discipline: Anchored by strong governance, configuration management, and strict operational standards.
  • Mission-Aligned Collaboration: Embedded teams providing immediate operational responsiveness.
  • Enterprise-Wide Alignment: Built on a foundation of trust, continuity, and shared mission goals.
  • Rapid Deployment: Fast-tracked pilots, scalable production solutions, and integrated training for long-term mission success.
  • Faster, Confident Decisions: Accelerates timelines and provides enduring decision advantage.
  • Unified Mission Execution: Achieves a secure, cohesive, and data-centric operational framework.
  • Enhanced Resilience: Increases infrastructure protection while significantly reducing operational and security risks.
  • Improved Cost Efficiency: Delivers scalable, repeatable models that optimize resources.

The Future of Missile Defense

Together, these capabilities deliver a scalable, repeatable model for modern missile defense—grounded in secure infrastructure, connected operations, data-driven decisions, and continuous modernization. By supporting next-generation architectures like Missile Defense System–Next and Golden Dome, Amentum sets the benchmark for the future of global security, delivering a resilient, adaptive, and data-centric enterprise built to operate at the speed of the threat.