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Golden Dome
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama—The command-and-control system now being developed to orchestrate the Golden Dome program’s future air and missile defense system for the homeland could migrate to U.S. military forces deployed overseas, a Golden Dome official said on Aug. 11.
“I think there’s potential. We’ll see,” said Lt. Gen. Brian Gibson, deputy direct reporting program manager for Golden Dome, responding to a question from the audience at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium here.
A nine-company consortium is developing the command-and-control layer for Golden Dome, with mandates to keep it affordable and comprehensive across the program’s undisclosed network of assets in the space, air, ground, sea and cyberspace. The consortium is set up to prevent a single contractor from defining the architecture. Instead, the members are supposed to agree internally on which roles are assigned to different companies, while being supervised by the government.
The Golden Dome program is open to expanding the architecture beyond the homeland defense architecture but wants to be careful not to interfere with or impose costs on deployed systems overseas that are already working, Gibson said.
“We don’t want to break [existing] systems. Things that are built today that are exquisite and work and they are doing phenomenal things, Golden Dome is not here to take those over from the services or to break them and make them less effective than what they are today,” Gibson said. “But we are absolutely committed to whatever pieces or parts we take of those things to employ them in a different way, in a better integrated fashion.”
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