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

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 ...

U.S. Space Command says it's finalized options for President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense system and has sent its recommendations to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for his review and ...

thereby saving millions of lives and the infrastructure of the U.S. The Golden Dome initiative builds on past projects, including President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative and ...

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 ...

We also see in the Golden Dome an echo of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) announced by President Reagan on 23 March 1983. The heart of the SDI was a plan to develop a space-based missile ...

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

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 ...

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