What happens when the United States tries to build a missile shield so ambitious that Russia and China start dreaming up weapons that no defense can stop?

MDA has cleared 1,014 companies to compete under the $151 billion SHIELD contract vehicle, the procurement channel for the ...

President Donald Trump unveiled initial plans for the "state-of-the-art" Golden Dome in May, which he said would be up and ...

The Trump administration’s January 2025 Golden Dome executive order set the stage for a massive expansion of U.S. missile defenses. Whereas the United States’ existing homeland missile defenses are ...

The Pentagon is casting a wide net for work under the Golden Dome air and missile defense program, awarding contracts to more than 1,000 companies as part of the effort’s early stages.

Kathryn Bigelow’s new nuclear thriller, “A House of Dynamite,” has been criticized by some experts for being unrealistic, most notably because it portrays an unlikely scenario in which an adversary ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's Golden Dome missile defense initiative is facing significant delays, hampered by the 43-day government shutdown and lack of a clear plan to ...

The U.S. Space Force quietly issued a series of small contracts to begin building prototype space-based interceptors, taking an early step toward a key component of President Donald Trump’s Golden ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Space Force has awarded about a half dozen small Golden Dome contracts to build competing missile defense prototypes, kicking off a race for future deals worth ...

The Trump administration’s proposed missile shield for the U.S. homeland—the Golden Dome—has sparked considerable debate. Critics in Beijing and Moscow warn it could destabilize the global balance and ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has begun awarding prototype contracts for space-based interceptors, an early step in the Pentagon’s push to field its planned Golden Dome missile defense ...