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https://breakingdefense.com/2025/01/tru ... erceptors/“The Iron Dome for America” appears to be a larger, space-based system akin to President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, the early 1980s program popularly known as “Star Wars,” which the executive order mentions.
“President Ronald Reagan endeavored to build an effective defense against nuclear attacks, and while this program resulted in many technological advances, it was canceled before its goal could be realized,” the executive order stated.
Among the mandates in the executive order:
- Acceleration of the deployment of the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor layer
- Development and deployment of proliferated space-based interceptors capable of boost-phase intercept;
- Deployment of underlayer and terminal-phase intercept capabilities postured to defeat a countervalue attack;
- Development and deployment of a custody layer of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture;
- Development and deployment of capabilities to defeat missile attacks prior to launch and in the boost phase;
- Development and deployment of a secure supply chain for all components with next-generation security and resilience features; and
Once plans for homeland defense have been sorted, the Pentagon is then to look at theater defenses. That includes to defend forward-deployed US force but also to “increase and accelerate the provision of United States missile defense capabilities to allies and partners.”
- Development and deployment of non-kinetic capabilities to augment the kinetic defeat of ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks;
