By raising the cost estimate to $185 billion, Gen. Michael Guetlein said it would accelerate development of the Airborne Moving Target Indication, space data network and the Hypersonic Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor.
Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Michael Duffey outlined key steps taken since an early November mandate to move out on acquisition reform.
On today’s battlefield, mobility isn’t optional - it’s mission-critical.
In total, the agency is providing awards to 1,014 "qualifying offerors" for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, under deals that could eventually total $151 billion over 10 years.
If the Pentagon does not start explaining Golden Dome, it will never be built, says Tom Karako of CSIS.
“We need a lot more information before we make decisions to spend hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars," said Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.
Gen. Michael Guetlein, the Pentagon Golden Dome czar, said on Tuesday that the "real technical challenge" for the effort will be building space-based interceptors to knock down enemy missiles in their boost phase.
As global navies adapt to evolving underwater threats, ASELSAN’s integrated sonar, countermeasure, and sonobuoy solutions offer a scalable, future-ready approach.
President Donald Trump said the project to develop a missile defense shield should be "fully operational" before the end of his term, and claimed Canada has asked to join the project.
Space Force leaders are sharpening their rhetorical swords regarding the service's need to build space warfighting chops.
Derek Tournear said he's concerned about cybersecurity and supply chain, and especially where they overlap: foreign-written software.
One of the key challenges for tracking enemy aircraft from space is that airplanes and drones move much faster than tanks, trucks and ships; confounded by the fact that satellites themselves also move around the Earth extremely fast.
Agentic AI helps defense manufacturers speed up production, cut complexity and improve decision-making across global supply chains.
"I would imagine that as Department of Commerce continues to mature this concept, we will definitely want to take advantage of what they're doing," said Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. Michael Guetlein.
After a top Air Force official strongly hinted at coming changes to the Air Force's structure, Adam Lowther and Curtis McGiffin warn that one particular option would be bad news for America's nuclear readiness.
"I don't care what it takes to get after the threat. That's really the cultural change that we're embarking upon," SSC head Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein told the Space Force Association's inaugural Spacepower conference.
A senior Space Force official said the Air Force was getting "rid" of the current structure as part of a great power reoptimization, but later walked back his comments as "not concrete."