Golden Dome: Space Force awards first space-based interceptor prototype contracts
The Space Force did not identify the winners, saying their names are “protected by enhanced security measures.”
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Space Force Prepares Golden Dome Solicitation For Midcourse Interceptors
The U.S. Space Force is to release a Request for Prototype Proposal (RPP) for what experts have said is the most feasible version of space-based missile defense–midcourse kinetic intercept. Space […]
Space Force Prepares Golden Dome Solicitation For Midcourse Interceptors
The U.S. Space Force is to release a Request for Prototype Proposal (RPP) for what experts have said is the most feasible version of space-based missile defense–midcourse kinetic intercept. Space […]
Golden Dome implementation plan under review, Congress may get look this week
“I predict that what you’re going to see is something that is far more… limited, both in terms of the number of threats that are feasibly able to be stopped, and also in terms of the area that [can be] defended against,” said Tom Karako with CSIS…
Golden Dome SBIs will need to be defended from adversary attack: Experts
The satellites will need to be defended “not only from adversary kinetic or local orbital issues, but also from cyber attacks, electronic jamming and laser attacks,” said Patrick Binning, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of E…
Missile threats at scale: Turning Golden Dome into reality
[Sponsored] Golden Dome’s layered architecture will have weapons and sensors in space for global coverage.
AeroVironment Deploying New Its Golden Dome Limited Area Counter-Drone System At Grand Forks
AeroVironment [AVAV] on Tuesday announced it will establish the foundation of its Golden Dome limited area defense architecture system at Grand Forks AFB, N.D. The company said this entails an […]
AEI Releases Space-Based Interceptor Calculator, Costs Can Balloon Into Trillions For Larger Constellations
An American Enterprise Institute (AEI) official created an interactive Space-Based Interceptor (SBI) Calculator to help show how the government’s design choices can vastly affect system cost, size and performance as […]
MDA Extends Golden Dome SHIELD Solicitation Due To Heavy Interest
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on October 2 extended the submission period for responses for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) […]
Firefly to buy SciTec with eye on Golden Dome
One analyst told Breaking Defense Golden Dome “is a motivator for sure, but this deal also provides Firefly with diversified revenue streams.”