The Pentagon’s Golden Dome space-based missile defense system is at risk of being delayed if Congress can’t figure out how to continue funding the program, Space Force Gen. Mike Guetlein said Aug. 11.
“If they don’t figure it out, there is no Golden Dome because there is no funding,” Guetlein told audience members at the annual Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama, according to Defense Daily.
The Pentagon has funded the program through budget reconciliation since it was first launched by President Donald Trump in 2025.
The multilayered defense system is designed to protect the United States from aerial threats, including complex ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic missiles….