Capstones

USC Shield ’24

Pacific Partners: A Coalition Framework for Enhancing Missile Defense in the Pacific

Passive Air and Missile Defense: A Path to Capability Resiliency and Deterrence in Great Power Competition

Accelerating Solutions to Defend Against Hypersonic Threats

The Peril and Promise of On-orbit Logistics in Orbital Warfare

Strategic Enhancement of Taiwan’s Space-Based Capabilities

USC Shield ’23

Defense of Guam – Command and Control (C2)

Defense of North America from the Arctic

An Assessment of the Viability of Dirigibles in Support of United States Missile Defense and National Communications

Orbital Debris in Low Earth Orbit Mitigation and Solutions through Policy and Technology

Integration of Space Weapons in the Joint Force Re-Shaping Defense Space Strategy through 2030: Shifting from Space Security to Space Superiority

Homeland Cruise Missile Defense

USC Shield ’22

Missile Defense Challenges: Defending a Distributed Network of Temporary Airfields and Logistics Nodes

Deterring the People’s Republic of China

Denying PRC benefits from attack on United States’ Satellites

Defending the U.S. Homeland against a Nuclear-Armed China

Integrated, Multinational, Multi-Domain, and Multi-Layer— How the US Achieves Victory in the Defense of Guam

Leveraging Commercial Best of Breed Companies to Increase Agility and Lethality For Integrated Deterrence in the Information Age

Academics and Innovation

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