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LmCo Golden Dome

At Sea-Air-Space 2025, Lockheed Martin announced its readiness to support the development of the 'Golden Dome' missile defense system, inspired by Israel's Iron Dome. The initiative, prompted by a White House executive order, aims to enhance U.S. missile defense capabilities and is expected to require significant funding and integration efforts. Lockheed Martin emphasizes its extensive experience in various defense technologies to facilitate this ambitious project.

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LmCo Golden Dome

At Sea-Air-Space 2025, Lockheed Martin announced its readiness to support the development of the 'Golden Dome' missile defense system, inspired by Israel's Iron Dome. The initiative, prompted by a White House executive order, aims to enhance U.S. missile defense capabilities and is expected to require significant funding and integration efforts. Lockheed Martin emphasizes its extensive experience in various defense technologies to facilitate this ambitious project.

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Sea-Air-Space: Lockheed

Martin Touts Readiness to


Build ‘Golden Dome’ Missile
Shield
Lockheed Martin’s Dan Tenney speaks with reporters at Sea-Air-
Space 2025. Photo credit: Lockheed Martin
A representative from Lockheed Martin said at Sea-Air-Space
2025 the firm is “ready now” to help the nation stand up the
“Golden Dome” missile defense system, a new priority of the
Trump administration that resurrects some aspects of the
Reagan-era Strategic Defense Initiative.

“What does it mean to be ready now? I think it means we have


systems that are fielded, they’re operational, they’re
proven,” said Dan Tenney, vice president of Strategy and
Business Development for Lockheed Martin’s Rotary and Mission
Systems section. “They’re actually in operation today.”

A Jan. 27 White House executive order calling for America to


develop its own version of Israel’s Iron Dome air defense
system unleashed a flood of activity in the defense community.
This comes as the government develops the fiscal 2026 defense
budget request to Congress, which reportedly could approach $1
trillion, to jumpstart Golden Dome and to support the many
other defense priorities.

A March 19 story published by DOD News confirmed the Pentagon


is working to bring the Golden Dome from concept to reality.

“Consistent with protecting the homeland and per President


Trump’s [executive order], we’re working with the industrial
base and [through] supply chain challenges associated with
standing up the Golden Dome,” said Steven J. Morani, acting
undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, in
the article. “This is like the monster systems engineering
problem. This is the monster integration problem.”

This is also a costly proposition. So far, the United States


has funneled around $3 billion to Israel — an 8,500-square-
mile country roughly the size of New Jersey — for batteries,
interceptors and other costs related to Iron Dome, which it
stood up in 2011, according to a 2023 Congressional Research
Service report.

Establishing a missile defense system covering the entire


United States — with a land area of nearly 3.8 million square
miles — is estimated to cost billions of dollars annually and
present many more barriers to success.

Nevertheless, Tenney said Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin is


well positioned to assist.

“We think the future is really going to be around this


integration,” Tenney said. “We do operate from seabed to
space,” he said, with deep experience developing systems in
global positioning, missile warning and tracking, radar,
missile defense, high-energy lasers and other capabilities.

“When I think about Golden Dome,” Tenney said, “in so many


ways I think we’re going to use existing systems but bring
them together.”

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