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Creates a centralized, fast‑track missile‑defense program called "Golden Dome" that gives a senior Program Manager extraordinary acquisition, budgeting, construction, and operational authorities to accelerate deployment of layered sensors and interceptors across sea, land, air, undersea, cyber, and space. Requires a one‑year strategy, demanding testing and reporting schedules, expanded use of commercial components, competition rules for space suppliers, expanded DOD authorities to mitigate unmanned aircraft threats, and provides $23.0 billion in FY2026 funding for specific missile‑defense programs and sites. The measure directs rapid procurement and fielding (including space‑based sensors, hypersonic trackers, ground and mobile interceptors, radars, and AI fusion tools), exempts some Golden Dome programs from standard acquisition rules, and grants waiver and legal procedures to speed construction and deployment while requiring frequent briefings and reports to Congress.
The bill accelerates and centralizes development and deployment of layered missile- and counter‑UAS defenses—leveraging commercial tech and clearer authorities to improve protection and speed—but does so at substantial taxpayer cost while increasing privacy, oversight, safety, and industrial‑base risks.
All U.S. residents, taxpayers, and deployed forces: strengthens homeland defense by prioritizing layered missile defenses (space-based sensors/interceptors plus ground/sea layers) and better early warning, reducing risk from long-range, hypersonic, and cruise missile attacks.
Military personnel, federal operators, and local responders: speeds operational response and program decision-making by clarifying leadership roles, delegating authorities to combatant commanders, and enabling faster procurement pathways for some commercial solutions.
Defense and technology industries, workers, and local economies: encourages commercial innovation, open architectures, and R&D procurement that can create jobs and expand industrial capacity in high‑tech defense sectors.
Taxpayers, families, and other federal programs: imposes large near‑term and long‑term costs (roughly $23 billion plus follow‑on spending), increasing deficits or forcing trade‑offs with non‑defense priorities and domestic programs.
Civil liberties, local officials, and communities: expands total‑domain surveillance and shields operational protocols from disclosure, reducing transparency, increasing privacy risks, and limiting community insight into countermeasures.
Taxpayers and congressional oversight bodies: concentrates extraordinary acquisition, waiver, and legal authorities in a single office with restricted judicial review, raising the risk of unchecked spending, weaker environmental/procurement protections, and reduced accountability.
Introduced June 23, 2025 by Daniel Scott Sullivan · Last progress June 23, 2025