{"id":33398,"date":"2019-08-12T18:47:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T18:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/08\/12\/its-official-us-army-inks-iron-dome-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:48:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:48:49","slug":"its-official-us-army-inks-iron-dome-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/smd\/2019\/08\/12\/its-official-us-army-inks-iron-dome-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s official: US Army inks Iron Dome deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. \u2014 The contract to purchase two Iron Dome systems<\/a> for the U.S. Army\u2019s interim cruise missile defense capability has been finalized, according to the deputy in charge of the service\u2019s air and missile defense modernization efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iron Dome was co-developed by American company Raytheon and Israeli defense firm Rafael. It is partly manufactured in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that the contract is set in stone<\/a>, the Army will be able to figure out delivery schedules and details in terms of taking receipt of the systems, Daryl Youngman told Defense News at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama, on Aug. 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army was shifting around its pots of funding within its Indirect Fires Protection Capability (IFPC)<\/a> program \u2014 under development to defend against rockets, artillery and mortars as well as unmanned aircraft and cruise missiles \u2014 to fill its urgent capability gap for cruise missile defense on an interim basis.<\/a> Congress mandated the Army deploy two batteries by fiscal 2020 in the service\u2019s fiscal 2019 budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iron Dome could feed into an enduring capability, depending on how it performs in the interim, Youngman said during a separate interview shortly before the symposium.<\/p>\n\n\n\t