Bicameral legislation would develop a modern, layered missile defense system that can counter, detect, track, and defeat existing and evolving threats.
The Ground and Orbital Launched Defeat of Emergent Nuclear Destruction and Other Missile Engagements (GOLDEN DOME) Act would authorize more than $23 billion to create an all-domain awareness of the U.S missile defense system. The system would have missile and drone capacity to defend against threats from rogue nations as well as near-peer nations. Threats include hypersonics and cruise missiles.
U.S. Sens. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and U.S. Rep. Mark Messmer (R-IN), Senate and House Armed Services Committees members, introduced the bill.
“Our adversaries have developed more advanced long-range weapons over the last couple of decades, posing a significant threat to our national security,” Cramer said during a press conference. “We have to act in order to defend against the evolving and complex threat landscape. Senator Sullivan and I introduced the GOLDEN DOME Act to build a layered missile defense system, which protects our homeland from catastrophic attacks from modern missiles.”
U.S. Sens. Jim Banks (R-IN), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Katie Britt (R-AL), Tom Cotton (R-AR), John Hoeven (R-ND), Tim Scott (R-SC), Tim Sheehy (R-MT), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) cosponsored the bill.