U.S. Golden Dome Details And Aggressive Schedule Come Together

ground-based interceptor

Lawmakers and Northrop Grumman are looking at increasing Ground-Based Interceptor production as part of the Golden Dome.

Credit: Ryan Keith/Missile Defense Agency
In 1991, TRW Space & Technology Group took on a $340.5 million contract to build “Brilliant Pebbles,” the most technologically complex part of the Reagan-era Strategic Defense Initiative. The ill-fated program, famously known as “Star Wars,” sought to build space-based interceptors that would orbit...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C.

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