US EditionDelivering Missile Defense Requires Leveraging American Industry
- On January 27, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order initiating the development of the Golden Dome missile defense system to protect the United States from advanced missile threats.
- This initiative arose due to rising concerns over expanding missile threats, including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles from adversaries like China and Russia, as outlined in a recent Defense Intelligence Agency assessment.
- Golden Dome will integrate layered defenses combining sensors, interceptors, command and control systems across ground, sea, air, and space domains under unified command, inspired by Israel's Iron Dome but scaled nationally.
- The network of space-based interceptors, considered the least proven and most costly segment, may require up to $542 billion over 20 years, while Defense Department officials emphasize rapid development using current and cutting-edge technologies.
- Defense leaders recognize that building Golden Dome's comprehensive shield will take years and depend on sustained access to critical assets, signaling a significant but necessary advancement in U.S. Missile defense capabilities.
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Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Could Cost Hundreds of Billions
“The Pentagon has submitted small, medium and large options to the White House for developing “Golden Dome,” President Donald Trump’s vision for a cutting-edge missile shield that can protect the US from long-range strikes that will likely cost hundreds of billions of dollars,“ CNN reports. “Trump is expected to announce his preferred option – and its price point – in the coming days, a decision that will ultimately chart a path forward for fund…
The Time is Right for Trump’s “Golden Dome” Defense of America
During much of the Cold War, America placed a high priority on defense of the American Homeland. Radars, Missiles, and Jet Interceptors were pervasive across the Continental United States. These capabilities withered greatly with the fall of the Wall dividing Berlin and Germany in 1989. Since that time, the American Homeland has been largely barren of defenses against hostile aircraft, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, drones, or rockets. …
Delivering missile defense requires leveraging American industry
President Trump's Golden Dome initiative aims to create a comprehensive integrated air and missile defense system for the United States, leveraging proven technologies and partnering with traditional defense actors in the industry to mitigate the odds of a successful nuclear or conventional attack on the U.S. homeland.
Various DOD agencies collaborating for Golden Dome in upcoming FY-26 request
The Space Force's fiscal year 2026 budget will have a "big flavor of Golden Dome within it," Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Strategy, Plans, Programs and Requirements Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton said yesterday. While little is known publicly about how the Defense Department will pursue the effort other than what was laid out in an executive order from President Trump, Bratton said various groups within the Pentagon have been collaborating to co…
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