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Golden Dome Could Cost $1.2 Trillion Over 20 Years, CBO Says

The Pentagon’s Golden Dome could cost about $1.2 trillion over the next two decades, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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The architecture laid out in CBO’s report assumes four interceptor layers designed to target multiple missile types and to operate either independently or in concert with an associated command-and-control network:
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  • A space-based constellation of 7,800 satellites each designed to take out up to 10 intercontinental ballistic missiles launched near simultaneously as well as hypersonic glide vehicle threats
  • An upper wide-area surface layer comprised of three Ground-Based Midcourse Defense sites, each with 60 Next-Generation Interceptors or Ground-Based Interceptors focused on engaging ICBM threats
  • A lower wide-area surface layer with four U.S.-based sites, each equipped with 48 SM-3 Block IIA interceptors to defeat ICBMs or hypersonic glide vehicles
  • A “regional sector” layer with 35 interceptor and radar sites loaded with THAAD, SM-6 Block IB, and Patriot interceptors that can target ICBMs, glide vehicles, and cruise missiles
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The U.S. Hypersonic Nuclear Weapon Is Already On its Way | Arms Control Association

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The Pentagon’s plans for future nuclear weapons delivery systems are coming sharply into focus with this year’s budget request. In all the coverage of the exorbitant $1.5 trillion defense top-line, analysts have so far overlooked an important development: clear signs that the next generation of U.S. nuclear weapons delivery systems will be non-ballistic hypersonic missiles and reentry vehicles.
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Global Strike Command Launches Minuteman ICBM Test​

Global Strike Command Launches Minuteman ICBM Test
Compared to previous tests, the Air Force released few details on GT-256. Usually, the service notes that the test reentry vehicles on the missile travel 4,200 miles to hit targets in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site. Previous announcements have also noted the number of test reentry vehicles, units involved, and sometimes the launch control system used.
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Compact Holographic 3D Radar​

The world's fastest radar used to track ground threats and drone swarms.
The GAX500-3D Powered by CH3D™ - Drone Swarm Detection at 18 Hz

Volumetric Persistent Radar​

Floodlight (Holographic Radar) vs Flashlight (ESA) Method

Security teams can now ditch the "flashlight" approach of legacy Electronically Scanned Arrays (ESA) radars to perimeter defense. The GAX500-3D, the world’s very first Compact Holographic 3D radar (CH3D), effectively acts as a floodlight with 100% time-on-target.
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Operating at a full 18 Hz, the GAX500-3D updates on all 50 targets within its 90°x90° field of view every 56 milliseconds. This is 32x faster than the nearest alternative. Unlike legacy ESA systems that suffer a 1.8-second "blink" during scans, this technology ensures drone swarms have nowhere to hide.
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Pentagon’s Plans To Track Aircraft From Orbit Accelerated With New $4B SpaceX Deal​

Pentagon's Plans To Track Aircraft From Orbit Accelerated With New $4B SpaceX Deal

Space Force Gives SpaceX $4.2B for Satellites to Track Airborne Targets​

Space Force Gives SpaceX $4.2B for Airborne Target Tracking

The Space Force awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract on May 29 to support its space-based airborne moving target indication program.
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Under the contract, SpaceX is scheduled to field “a constellation of satellites” by 2028
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The Space Force has been working with the National Reconnaissance Office to develop and fly space-based AMTI prototypes, to see if they can perform a mission from orbit that has traditionally been conducted by ground-based radars and aircraft. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink and other officials have said those experiments have proven the viability of space and that the goal is create a multidomain architecture that relies on air, space, and ground sensors to track these targets—one they expect will be more resilient against adversaries’ anti-access/area-denial systems.

The Space Force’s fiscal 2027 budget request includes $7 billion to procure Space-Based AMTI satellites and $1 billion for a separate effort to conduct ground-moving target indication from orbit.
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