This new initiative expands upon decades of U.S. missile defense efforts, building on technologies from the Reagan-era Strategic Defense Initiative and modernizing the U.S. response to rising threats from China,

President Trump on Monday night signed an executive order to create a next-generation missile defense shield, which the White House referred to as the “Iron Dome for America” after Israel’s

Some of the nation’s largest defense contractors are eying roles in President Donald Trump’s plan to build a more comprehensive missile defense system to protect the US.