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What Is the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA)?
The Pentagon's plan to build a mesh network of hundreds of satellites in low Earth orbit that can detect, track and relay targeting data on missile threats. How it works, who builds it, what it costs and why it matters.
Concept Explainer
What Is Golden Dome?
The next-generation missile defense initiative and its most ambitious element: space-based interceptors that would destroy enemy missiles from orbit. How it connects to the PWSA, what it costs and the physics problem no one has solved yet.
Concept Explainer
SDA Explained: The Space Development Agency
The Pentagon agency building the orbital mesh: its history, structure, procurement model, relationship to the Space Force and the 2026 fight over whether it survives as a distinct agency.
Coming Soon
What Is HBTSS?
The Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor: the satellite layer designed to follow threats that fly too fast for ground-based radar.
Coming Soon
What Is JADC2?
Joint All-Domain Command and Control: the Pentagon's strategy to connect every sensor, shooter and decision-maker across land, sea, air, space and cyber.
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