The location stems from a long chain of events beginning in the 1980s, when the United States decided to abandon the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). This was a Cold War program aimed at ...

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 ...

Trump’s order invokes former President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, which detractors labeled “Star Wars.” But much like Reagan’s push for total nuclear defense ...

The U.S. is moving forward with plans to develop a "Golden Dome" missile defense system. What exactly does this mean for ...

The future of warfare will be defined by artificial intelligence (AI) driven autonomy, next-generation defense systems, and ...