Defense One
he Space Force has formed a team of experts to gauge which of its current programs can help build out President Trump’s “Iron Dome for America” initiative—and what still needs to be developed.
The service will play “a central role” in the initiative and has established an “technical integrated planning team to start thinking about it from an overarching perspective,” Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told reporters Monday.
The initiative has been officially renamed “Golden Dome,” a defense official confirmed to Defense One. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a Feb. 20 video, referred to “the Golden Dome or Iron Dome.”
Pentagon officials began drawing up plans for the initiative after Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order called for the creation of a “next-generation missile defense shield” to protect the U.S. from missiles or other advanced aerial attacks.
Several agencies’ systems will play a role in the effort, including the Missile Defense Agency’s Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor satellite and the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
