HII has been awarded the Missile Defense Agency’s Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract through its Mission Technologies division.
An opinion article by Boaz Levy, President and CEO of Israel Aerospace Industries, published on the website of The Jerusalem Post, examines the rationale behind Israel’s potential contribution to the United States’ Golden Dome homeland defence initiative.
The U.S. Space Force has issued a request for prototype proposals for space-based interceptors designed to destroy missiles during their midcourse phase of flight.
The Golden Dome air and missile defence shield will achieve “operational capability” in 2028, Space Force Gen. Michael A. Guetlein said on 6 December at the Reagan National Defense Forum.
The U.S. Space Force has awarded its first prototype contracts to develop space based interceptors intended to destroy missile threats within minutes of launch.
Space Kinetic has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by the DARPA to accelerate the development of its asymmetric space-based missile defence architecture.
Lockheed Martin plans to conduct an on-orbit demonstration of a space-based missile interceptor by 2028, as part of the U.S. missile defence initiative known as Golden Dome.
Apex has announced it will launch a privately funded, space-based missile interceptor demonstration next summer, with the goal of supporting the Pentagon’s Golden Dome missile defence programme.
AeroVironment, Inc. has announced an expanded partnership with GrandSKY to deploy its Golden Dome for America limited area defence system at Grand Forks Air Force Base (AFB) in North Dakota.
The United States is planning to upgrade its early warning radar systems to better detect and classify hostile ballistic missiles targeting the homeland.
Firefly Aerospace announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SciTec, Inc., a United States-based leader in advanced national security technologies, for approximately $855 million.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has extended the deadline for industry proposals under its Golden Dome solicitation by one week, citing “considerable interest” from potential bidders.
