Golden Dome
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Missile DefenseFischer Says Golden Dome Boosters Need To Increase Capitol Hill Support With Information, Warns Against Counting On Reconciliation
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – A Senate Armed Services panel chair today said boosters of the Golden Dome program still have work to do to increase support on Capitol Hill while […]
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Missile DefenseMDA Looking To “Dramatically” Lower Costs Of Missile Defense Kill Vehicles
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on Aug. 19 issued a solicitation seeking innovative proposals from industry to dramatically lower the cost of kill vehicles used to defend against ballistic and […]
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Missile DefenseDoD Declined To Brief CBO On Golden Dome
The Defense Department’s Golden Dome office has declined repeated briefing requests from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on what the Pentagon is planning to build while the head of that […]
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SpaceSPACECOM Officials See Use For, And Threat From, Space Fires
HUNSTVILLE, Ala. – Top officials at U.S. Space Command said they see space fires, including laser weapons, as a threat to defend against as well as a resource to attack […]
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Missile DefenseGolden Dome’s Space-Based Interceptor Competition Passes First Test; Homeland System Needs AI
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – The Space-Based Interceptor (SBI) competition cleared the first of four “gates” in the Space Force’s competitive prize competition, with all competitors moving forward, the head of the […]
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Missile DefenseGuetlein: Without Reconciliation, ‘There Is No Golden Dome Because There Is No Funding’
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – The head of the Golden Dome program on Tuesday warned that if Congress does not pass another reconciliation bill with funding for for the homeland missile defense […]
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Missile DefenseJohns Hopkins APL Picked As SBI Technical Direction Agent
The Space Force has selected Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to serve as the technical direction agent for the Space-Based Interceptor (SBI) program, the service announced Friday. In […]
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Navy/USMCHanwha Philly And TOTE Picked To Build MDA Missile Range Instrumentation Vessels
The Hanwha Philly Shipyard and Vessel Construction manager (VCM) TOTE Services were selected to build the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Missile Range Instrumentation Vessels (MRIV), set to play a role […]
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Missile DefenseGolden Dome Head Pushes Back on CBO Estimate; Sen. Sheehy Agrees On Trillion Dollar Scale
The head of the Golden Dome program on May 14 strongly disagreed with a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate that a system along the lines of President Donald Trump’s […]
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Missile DefenseCBO Estimates Golden Dome With Boost-Phase Space Interceptors At $1.2 Trillion
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates a potential national missile defense system, along the lines of the Golden Dome’s initially stated objectives, would cost about $1.2 trillion FY 2026 dollars […]
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