Before Memorial Day, Republican members of Congress are attempting to pass President Donald Trump’s” One Big, Beautiful Bill.” Naturally, we are hearing a lot about the legislation’s financial components, especially Medicaid and tax breaks. However, there is a exciting feature of the costs worth looking at: the” Golden Dome.”
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The President issued an executive order in January tasked the Department of Defense with planning for a similar structure, and Israel’s amazingly effective Iron Dome technology serves as the clear motivation for a comparable program.
This type of security is important, as stated in the executive order‘s text:
The most disastrous threat to the United States continues to be the threat of nuclear, fast, cruise missile attacks, as well as other advanced aerial attacks.
President Ronald Reagan worked to create a strong protection against radioactive problems, and while this endeavor led to numerous technological advancements, it was canceled before its intended purpose may become realized. And since the United States withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 and started developing a restricted land weapon defense, its official homeland missile defense strategy has remained just to keep ahead of rogue-nation threats and spontaneous or unauthorized missile launches.
With the enhancement by gaze and near-peer adversaries of next-generation distribution systems and their own country integrated heat and missile defense capabilities over the past 40 years, the threat from next-generation strategic weapons has become more powerful and sophisticated.
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Last week, senior DoD officials testified about Golden Dome before the Senate Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces subcommittee. According to Army Maj. Wes Shinego, “officials acknowledged that Golden Dome is an ambitious undertaking that would require expanding the Iron Dome concept to a national level.”
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According to Air Force Gen. Gregory M. Guillot, Golden Dome would integrate already-existing sensors and trackers with new infrastructure. He claimed that Golden Dome will aid in the tracking of threats from space, the air, and the sea.
” We’re at the core of helping [DOD ] in putting together an architecture that’s comprehensive, that covers all pieces and parts, and that can] be executed,” said Air Force Lt. Gen. Heath A. Collins, director of the Missile Defense Agency, before the committee.
Shinego remarked:
Glen D. Van Herck, a retired Air Force general who led Northcom and NORAD up until earlier this year, predicted that developing and deploying the space-based sensor and interceptor layer could take five to ten years.  ,
Golden Dome will have a unified command and control system that includes multiple layers of defense, from ship-borne interceptors and fighter jet defenses to ship-based and space-based systems. Due to the complexity, leaders in the defense industry concur that creating such a complete shield won’t happen overnight.  ,
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La. ) According to some, “rebuilding our national defense” is one of the One Big, Beautiful Bill’s key objectives. In an increasingly hostile world, President Trump promised a stronger national defense, something we need more than ever. Hopefully, Congress and DoD will be able to complete Golden Dome sooner rather than later.
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