Budget Instability Puts Golden Dome at Risk, Guetlein Warns
Guetlein said 90% of initial Golden Dome funds are obligated, but most FY-27 money depends on a reconciliation request lawmakers have little appetite to approve.
- Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein warned on Wednesday that the Golden Dome national air defense shield faces a potential halt in October without continued funding from Congress.
- The Pentagon seeks $17.5 billion for the initiative in fiscal 2027, yet less than $400 million is included in the base budget request, leaving the majority tied to a reconciliation pot that lawmakers have shown little appetite for approving.
- A Congressional Budget Office report from May estimated the project could cost upward of $1.2 trillion over 20 years; the Pentagon unveiled an online America Hub portal on Tuesday to streamline design submissions from defense companies.
- "A CR doesn't help me at Golden Dome because I don't have a top line to fall back on," Guetlein told reporters, as the department explores alternative funding streams to maintain capabilities requested by combatant commands.
- Lawmakers are navigating midterm election pressures while debating the broader Defense Department budget for fiscal 2027, which begins October 1, determining the ultimate fate of the Golden Dome reconciliation funding request.
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Budget Instability Puts Golden Dome at Risk, Guetlein Warns
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—The four-star general in charge of the Pentagon’s Golden Dome program warned that uncertainty around the Pentagon’s $350 billion reconciliation request could slow progress on the homeland missile defense effort, a top priority for President Donald Trump. To date, the Pentagon’s strategy for funding the $185 billion program has been to bypass the annual budget process and rely instead on a separate funding maneuver called recon…
If funding falters, ‘there’s no Golden Dome,’ Guetlein warns
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Work on the Golden Dome national air defense shield could come to a grinding halt in October if lawmakers do not figure out a way to continue funding for the presidential initiative, the general in charge of the massive project warned today. “I will tell you that if they don’t figure it...
U.S. conducts secret Golden Dome tests, but funding for cutting-edge missile shield is uncertain
The head of President Trump's ambitious "Golden Dome for America" project said Tuesday that the U.S. military has already carried out two secretive tests of the multibillion-dollar missile defense shield, with new technologies and artificial intelligence being incorporated into the developing system.
Guetlein warns Golden Dome faces FY-27 funding cliff, programmatic risk
HUNTSVILLE, AL -- Golden Dome could be left without money in fiscal year 2027-- even if Congress averts a government shutdown -- because the administration placed the missile defense initiative outside the regular Pentagon topline and instead assumed lawmakers would provide another round of mandatory funding, according to the four-star general overseeing the effort. "When the president submitted his budget over to [Capitol] Hill for FY-27, I was…
Golden Dome office creates website for industry input
The Department of War on Tuesday unveiled a new online website for defense companies to submit ideas and requests for information regarding the Golden Dome initiative. The digital platform, which can be found at hub.goldendome.mil, is designed to allow traditional and nontraditional defense companies to register, upload concepts, and submit designs directly to the Golden Dome project’s decision-makers. The goal, the Pentagon said in a press rele…
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