{"id":68375,"date":"2025-02-07T20:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2025\/02\/07\/senators-detail-desired-missile-defense-elements-for-trumps-iron-dome\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:18:15","slug":"senators-detail-desired-missile-defense-elements-for-trumps-iron-dome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2025\/02\/07\/senators-detail-desired-missile-defense-elements-for-trumps-iron-dome\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators detail desired missile defense elements for Trump\u2019s Iron Dome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two Republican senators have introduced legislation that would establish more detailed plans for President Donald Trump\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2025\/01\/29\/trumps-missile-shield-marks-shift-in-homeland-defense-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\"> new missile defense shield for the homeland<\/a> \u2013 to include resurrecting several previously proposed plans and capabilities that were either canceled or placed on the back burner over the last decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the bill, submitted Feb. 5 by Sens. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., the senators lay out a plan for missile defense for the continental U.S. that would include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2024\/01\/22\/aegis-ashore-poland-enters-maintenance-period-ahead-of-nato-acceptance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aegis Ashore systems<\/a> (only two such systems exist and are operating in Poland and Romania). The plan also calls for using blimps for detection of complex threats, expanding the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2023\/12\/11\/homeland-defense-interceptor-defeats-ballistic-missile-in-test\/\" target=\"_blank\"> current Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, or GMD, at Fort Greely, Alaska,<\/a> and adding a brand new interceptor site on the east coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the bill, the amount authorized for the endeavor to establish a new missile defense shield for fiscal 2026 would total approximately $19.5 billion, which comes to nearly twice as much as the Missile Defense Agency\u2019s fiscal 2025 budget request of $10.4 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the bill passes, it would require all operations and sustainment of missile defense systems to be transferred to the services, freeing up the Missile Defense Agency, or MDA, to focus entirely on capability research and development. While this has been done for certain programs, such as the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System \u2014 developed by MDA but then transferred to the Army \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/smd\/2019\/08\/14\/mda-director-opposes-transfer-of-terminal-missile-defense-system-to-army\/\" target=\"_blank\">agency has opposed the transfer of other capabilities to the services, <\/a>like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2022\/01\/21\/thaad-in-first-operational-use-destroys-midrange-ballistic-missile-in-houthi-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\">Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/smd\/2019\/08\/14\/mda-director-opposes-transfer-of-terminal-missile-defense-system-to-army\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/48017706166_70e44c0ea0_k.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Slippery slope: MDA boss fights transfer of missile defense system to Army<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The new Missile Defense Agency director wants to better define what &quot;transferring missile defense capability&quot; between the agency and the services means so that programs can remain successful.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s executive order to develop a next-generation homeland missile defense shield marks a shift in the country\u2019s long-standing<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2023\/08\/07\/what-challenges-will-the-next-missile-defense-agency-director-face\/\" target=\"_blank\"> homeland missile defense strategy<\/a>, which has focused on threats from rogue nations like North Korea and Iran, rather than from peer adversaries like China or Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The order \u2013 titled \u201cThe Iron Dome for America\u201d in a nod to the successful, lowest tier of Israel\u2019s multilayered air defense system of the same name \u2013 also addresses a broader array of complex threats, from hypersonic weapons to cruise missiles and drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSenator Cramer and I are introducing legislation to build a homeland missile defense system that can protect our country from the intensifying threats and growing arsenals of China and Russia,\u201d Sullivan said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bill, named the \u201cIron Dome Act\u201d builds upon both Trump\u2019s order for a missile defense shield and recommendations from the 2022 Missile Defense Review, Sullivan noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4928\" height=\"3264\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/568994.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"A Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System aerostat, or JLENS, is seen at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.\" class=\"wp-image-112943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/568994.jpg.jpg 4928w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/568994.jpg.jpg?resize=300,199 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/568994.jpg.jpg?resize=768,509 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/568994.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,678 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/568994.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1017 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/568994.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1356 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4928px) 100vw, 4928px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System aerostat, or JLENS, is seen at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. (John Hamilton\/U.S. Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Making a comeback<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year marks a decade since a giant tethered aerostat \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2015\/10\/28\/jlens-spy-blimp-on-the-ground-after-journey-over-pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\"> the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, or JLENS, <\/a>as it is better known \u2013 broke free from its mooring station near Baltimore and took a three-hour jaunt through the skies of Pennsylvania, dragging its several-thousand-foot tether, which hit power lines along the way and caused significant power outages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JLENS ultimately landed in a grove of trees in the countryside where Pennsylvania state troopers were ordered to open fire on the blimp to deflate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Raytheon-made aerostat was designed to work in a pair, one with a fire-control system, and the other with powerful surveillance sensors capable of tracking swarming boats and vehicles and detecting and tracking cruise missile threats from Boston all the way to Norfolk, Virginia. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2016\/05\/27\/congress-nails-runaway-blimp-s-coffin-shut\/\" target=\"_blank\">It was canceled<\/a> during its operational exercise at Aberdeen Proving Ground following the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sullivan and Cramer\u2019s bill would require the Army secretary to field dirigibles, including airships and aerostats, \u201cin support of the missile defense of the United States homeland from ballistic, hypersonic and cruise missiles and drones,\u201d it states. The legislation would authorize $100 million for the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bill would also authorize $25 million for the Missile Defense Agency to plan and design <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/space-missile-defense\/2016\/08\/17\/mda-to-announce-preferred-east-coast-missile-defense-site-by-years-end\/\" target=\"_blank\">an east coast-based missile defense interceptor site<\/a> at Fort Drum, New York, much like the GMD system at Fort Greely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2016, the MDA was in the process of choosing a preferred site for a potential east coast location, but the agency never ended up settling on a spot after conducting environmental and feasibility studies of such an architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MDA\u2019s director at the time stressed the agency was not advocating for an east coast site, stating repeatedly that the site was not necessary and the agency would prefer to focus on other efforts, including improving the GMD system with better interceptors. But various lawmakers have continued to push for it over the past decade. One of its supporters is Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., who has Fort Drum in her district. Stefanik is set to leave Congress after Trump selected her to serve as the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s \u201cIron Dome\u201d executive order also included a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2019\/12\/11\/congress-backs-off-push-for-space-based-missile-intercept-layer\/\" target=\"_blank\"> renewed pursuit of space-based interceptors<\/a>. The bill would support that effort, in addition to continuing to pursue a robust space-based threat detection layer. The legislation would authorize $60 million for space sensors and $900 million for space-based missile defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2053\" height=\"1406\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/alaska-gmd.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-114165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/alaska-gmd.jpg.jpg 2053w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/alaska-gmd.jpg.jpg?resize=300,205 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/alaska-gmd.jpg.jpg?resize=768,526 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/alaska-gmd.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,701 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/alaska-gmd.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1052 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/alaska-gmd.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1403 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2053px) 100vw, 2053px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alaska National Guard members operate the ground-based midcourse defense portion of the Ballistic Missile Defense System at Fort Greely, Alaska. (Sgt. Jack W. Carlson III\/Alaska Army National Guard)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Building up<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The legislation calls for the additional procurement of a variety of missile defense systems already in operation and the acceleration of a variety of development programs for next-generation interceptor capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bill would also allow for an expansion of the GMD system at Fort Greely up to 80 missile silos \u2013 doubling the number of silos already in place \u2013 and it would accelerate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/2024\/01\/31\/missile-defense-interceptor-competition-enters-critical-design-phase\/\" target=\"_blank\">development of the Next-Generation Interceptor, or NGI,<\/a> that will replace all of the ground-based interceptors in the system. A total of $12 billion would be authorized to expand the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MDA wants to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2024\/06\/27\/next-gen-homeland-defense-interceptor-plans-are-risky-watchdog-says\/\" target=\"_blank\"> field NGI by 2028,<\/a> but Congress is pushing for an earlier deadline. Lockheed Martin was chosen last year to develop the system, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2024\/04\/16\/lockheed-chosen-to-build-new-homeland-missile-defense-interceptor\/\" target=\"_blank\">surprise decision <\/a>that came one year earlier than planned. The company was competing against a Northrop Grumman-Raytheon team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the bill, the defense secretary would be required to field a minimum of 80 interceptors at Fort Greely no later than Jan. 1, 2038.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bill also requires MDA to accelerate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2024\/09\/26\/pentagon-makes-early-pick-for-hypersonic-interceptor-developer\/\" target=\"_blank\">development of its Glide-Phase Interceptor<\/a>. The agency chose Northrop Grumman over Raytheon in September to build an interceptor capable of defeating hypersonic weapons in the boost phase of flight. The decision also came earlier than originally planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon would also have to look into conducting parallel development of an alternative interceptor, according to the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of the new missile defense shield would include the establishment of Aegis Ashore sites in Alaska, Hawaii and on the east coast, according to the legislation. The bill authorizes $1 billion for site selection and an execution plan for construction of the sites on the east coast and in Alaska, as well as an additional $250 million to complete and certify the paused Aegis Ashore system in Hawaii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of THAAD systems and interceptors would also increase, should the bill pass. The legislation would authorize $1.4 billion to \u201caccelerate the production and fielding of the [THAAD] system (including AN\/TPY-2 radars) for forward deployment and homeland defense as the secretary and president consider appropriate,\u201d the bill states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The legislation also pushes to boost production numbers for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2025\/01\/15\/raytheon-aims-to-boost-sm-3-missile-production-rates\/\" target=\"_blank\">SM-3 Block IB <\/a>and Block IIA missiles that are fired from U.S. Navy Aegis weapon systems, for a total of $1 billion. The MDA attempted to end SM-3 Block IB production in its fiscal 2025 budget request in order to pursue higher development priorities, but Congress has restored funding to keep the line hot in the annual defense authorization bill. It has yet to approve fiscal 2025 funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another $1.5 billion would cover the production of Patriot missiles and batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two senators introduced a bill that would authorize $19.5 billion for fiscal 2026 to build out Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Iron Dome for 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