Jason Sherman

2 days ago | insidedefense.com | Jason Sherman

The Pentagon has quietly canceled a long-anticipated industry engagement on space-based missile interceptors, dealing another setback to the Trump administration's push to rapidly launch the most ambitious element of its new national missile defense initiative, Golden Dome. On June 3, the Missile Defense Agency terminated the Space-Based Interceptor (SBI) Industry Engagement event, originally planned for late April in Huntsville, AL.

4 days ago | insidedefense.com | Jason Sherman

The Defense Department abruptly canceled -- again -- a high-profile industry summit for the Golden Dome for America missile defense initiative, marking a sputtering start for the Trump administration's marquee military modernization project -- an estimated $175 billion project launched with fanfare at the White House two weeks ago. The Missile Defense Agency announced late Monday that the Golden Dome Industry Summit, originally rescheduled for June 11 in Huntsville, AL, will not take place.

1 week ago | insidedefense.com | Jason Sherman

The future of a promising new undersea surveillance platform -- designed to blanket the ocean with small, unmanned acoustic nodes -- could hinge on the Navy's fiscal year 2026 budget request. ThayerMahan’s Outpost, an unmanned mobile acoustic surveillance system, has drawn support from the Office of the Secretary of Defense after the Navy opted not to fund the effort in its FY-25 request. The project, with support for OSD’s ORCAstrate initiative, is part of a broader push to field distributed,...

1 week ago | insidedefense.com | Jason Sherman

The Biden administration's Pentagon leadership directed significant changes to the architecture of the multibillion-dollar missile defense system for Guam in the final days of its term, according to a newly released Government Accountability Office report . On Jan.

2 weeks ago | insidedefense.com | Jason Sherman

The Pentagon's ambitious plan to ring Guam with a state-of-the-art missile defense system is running into fundamental obstacles that could delay or disrupt the project's completion, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.