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Senate Subcommittee Questions Feasibility, Cost and Timeline for 'Golden Dome' homeland missile-defense effort
Summary
Witnesses told the Senate Armed Services subcommittee that work is underway to design an integrated homeland air and missile-defense architecture called "Golden Dome," but officials and senators raised questions about scale, timelines, and costs and said final architecture decisions are tied to the President’s budget.
WASHINGTON — Senior Department of Defense officials told a Senate Armed Services subcommittee that the department is developing design options for an integrated homeland air and missile-defense architecture called “Golden Dome,” but that key technical decisions and funding remain pending with the White House and the FY26 budget process.
“The President has mandated that The United States will develop and field a next generation missile defense shield to provide for the common defense of our citizens and the nation and deter, defend against and defeat any foreign aerial attack on the homeland,” Ms. Yaffe said in her opening statement, summarizing the policy directive conveyed to the Office of the…
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