News from the Space and Missile Defense Symposium
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By Sandra Erwin The Pentagon is pressing defense contractors to increase production of missile interceptors as recent conflicts expose a longstanding weakness in U.S. air and missile defense: inventories of the most capable weapons can be depleted faster than industry can replace them.
Army leaders say increasing production is only part of the answer.
“The future of missile defense is a mix of high end and lower cost interceptors,” said Lt. Gen. John Rafferty, commander of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command.
Speaking with reporters at the Space & Missile Defense Symposium Aug. 11, Rafferty said he couldn’t discuss how the Pentagon was addressing shortages of advanced hit-to-kill weapons used against ballistic missiles. Pentagon leaders, he said, “are the ones that are really signaling the need and the urgency for quantities.” |
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The Pentagon created a digital portal designed to give contractors, startups, investors and universities a more direct path into the Golden Dome missile defense program, one of the government’s most closely held defense initiatives.
The “Golden Dome for America Ecosystem Hub,” announced Tuesday at the Space & Missile Defense Symposium, is intended to provide companies with a channel to submit concepts and gain access to unclassified information about the program’s technology needs, even as most of the architecture remains classified.
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Gen. Michael Guetlein, the Pentagon official overseeing Golden Dome for America, warned that the missile defense initiative faces a fiscal year 2027 funding gap unless Congress finds a new way to finance the program.
Speaking Aug. 11 at the Space & Missile Defense Symposium, Guetlein said Golden Dome is in an unusual budget position because its initial funding was routed through reconciliation rather than the Pentagon’s regular annual budget.
“It’s a tough, tough budget environment to try to figure out how to fund all of the nation’s priorities, both domestic and military overseas,” Guetlein said during a fireside chat with retired Army Lt. Gen. Dan Karbler. |
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