Network Centric Airborne Defense Element

On September 18, 2008 Raytheon announced it had been awarded a $10 million contract to continue NCADE research and development.

[1] The NCADE system is a boost phase interceptor based heavily on the AIM-120 AMRAAM, with the AMRAAM fragmentation warhead replaced by a hit-to-kill vehicle powered by a hydroxylammonium nitrate-based monopropellant rocket engines from Aerojet.

[4] On April 2008, Aerojet completed a full-duration test firing of an axial thruster for the second stage of NCADE.

[5]: 933 The launch vehicle would be a Boeing F-15C Golden Eagle with an AESA radar.

[6] NCADE is listed as "Discontinued" on the website of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance.