{"id":211154,"date":"2025-04-11T01:27:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/space-force-chief-golden-dome-is-a-missile-shield-built-in-pieces-not-a-single-system"},"modified":"2025-04-11T01:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:27:58","slug":"space-force-chief-golden-dome-is-a-missile-shield-built-in-pieces-not-a-single-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/space-force-chief-golden-dome-is-a-missile-shield-built-in-pieces-not-a-single-system","title":{"rendered":"Space Force chief: \u2018Golden Dome\u2019 is a missile shield built in pieces, not a single system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-force-chief-golden-dome-is-a-missile-shield-built-in-pieces-not-a-single-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>COLORADO SPRINGS \u2014 The head of the U.S. Space Force sought to clear up confusion about the Trump administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/space-force-general-golden-dome-missile-shield-requires-manhattan-project-scale-effort\/\">ambitious missile defense initiative<\/a> known as Golden Dome, emphasizing that it represents a complex network of systems rather than a single procurement program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a system. There\u2019s not going to be a \u2018Golden Dome delivered,\u2019\u201d Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations, said April 9 at a news conference during the Space Symposium. \u201cIt\u2019s a system of systems that has to work together. And so there won\u2019t be a single contract vehicle. There will be multiple programs that are brought to bear to solve that mission against the threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Dome initiative, established through a White House executive order, aims to create a comprehensive shield protecting the United States against an array of missile threats, including ballistic, hypersonic and advanced cruise missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLORADO SPRINGS \u2014 The head of the U.S. Space Force sought to clear up confusion about the Trump administration\u2019s ambitious missile defense initiative known as Golden Dome, emphasizing that it represents a complex network of systems rather than a single procurement program. \u201cIt\u2019s not a system. There\u2019s not going to be a \u2018Golden Dome delivered,\u2019\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}