The Defense Department will soon brief the president on possible options for a planned missile defense system that could cost ...

The Department of Defense has initiated a far-reaching transformation of its civilian workforce through the Workforce Acceleration ...

Security and Aerospace company Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) announced in Q1 CY2025, with sales up 4.5% year on year to $17.96 ...

U.S. Space Command says it's finalized options for President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense system and has sent ...

This concept revives the Reagan-era “Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initiative. But while technology has advanced since the United States first attempted a space-based missile shield in the ...

The idea was first proposed during the Cold War, particularly under the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars, initiated in the 1980s. However, due to high costs ...

We also see in the Golden Dome an echo of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) announced by President Reagan on 23 March ...

Consider: In 1983, when Ronald Reagan first proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), the U.S. needed only to convince Moscow that the project was feasible and serious. The Soviets believed ...

Today, a year later, the fate of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)-and with it the "Brilliant Pebbles" approach that Wood has proposed-remains an open question, as Congress debates whether the ...

WASHINGTON--James A. Ionson’s four-year tenure as director of SDI’s Innovative Science and Technology (IST) program was punctuated by controversy over the idea of a strategic defense and the role of ...

but the Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as “Star Wars,” ultimately did not come to fruition because of technology and cost challenges.