Posted: February 8, 2025 1:25 pm ET | Last Updated: February 8, 2025 1:36 pm ET | Senators Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) have introduced the IRONDOME Act to begin implementing President Trump's Iron Dome for America concept, which includes development of space-based interceptors. The idea traces its roots to Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
The inclusion of space-based interceptors is a particularly hard nut for Moscow to swallow, given long-standing Russian belief that such weapons are aimed at undercutting the country’s nuclear retaliatory capability following a US first strike.| Breaking Defense
Trump’s signature legislation will push defense spending past $1 trillion, with new funding for innovation and other capabilities. But those investments are at risk of becoming one-off acquisitions w…| Council on Foreign Relations
The United States should consider how acquiring the Golden Dome as a commercial service would unlock tremendous innovation and speed advantages, and bring the full creative might of the U.S. commercial sector to bear addressing this national security priority.| www.csis.org
Posted: June 10, 2025 11:06 pm ET | Last Updated: June 12, 2025 9:01 pm ET | The House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee took the first step in funding DOD for FY2026 on June 10, 2025, approving a bill that keeps total DOD spending at the same level as FY2025. The Space Force would also be funded at the same level as FY2025 even though the Trump Administration proposed cutting it by almost $3 billion.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: May 20, 2025 6:22 pm ET | Last Updated: May 21, 2025 10:23 am ET | President Trump announced that U.S. Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein will lead the Golden Dome missile defense project.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
President Trump issued an executive order tasking the Pentagon to build a multilayered defense system against emerging missile threats.| DefenseScoop
It's not clear why gold was chosen, but it is famously Trump's favorite color.| The War Zone