Trump Taps Space Force General and heads 175 billion US dollars Golden Dome Missile Defense Program

Washington – President Donald Trump has selected General Michael Guetlein to lead the ambitious program to defend the Golden Dome missiles, a massive undertaking that is supposed to create a comprehensive sign against advanced rocket threats for the United States.

During an oval office that was informed on May 20, Trump flanked by Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, Guetlein and Republican Senatorers Jim Banks (Ind.), Kevin Cramer (ND) and Dan Sullivan (Alaska) announced that his administration is expected to be “architecture” for Golden Dome.

“We will really complete the task that President Reagan started 40 years ago and ended the rocket threat to American homeland,” said Trump, referring to Reagan's strategic defense initiative, which is popularly known as “Star Wars”, which proposed similar skills in the 1980s but was never fully realized.

The Golden Dome program is one of the most ambitious initiatives to defend the rockets in the history of US history. The system aims to use a combination of room-based sensors, floor-based interceptors and advanced commands and control networks in order to recognize, pursue and destroy incoming rockets before they can achieve goals in the United States.

Hegseth emphasized the broad scope of the program and explained that Golden Dome would protect “the home from cruise rockets, ballistic rockets, hyperschallraken, drone, regardless of whether they are conventionally or nuclear”.

“Next generation technologies”

Trump revealed that the administration “officially selected an architecture for this state -of -the -art system in which next generation technologies are used in the country, sea and space, including spatial sensors and interceptors”. The president did not provide any specific details about the design, but claimed that “he would be integrated into our existing defense skills and should be fully functional before the end of my term”.

“Hyperschallrakets, ballistic rockets and advanced cruise rocks, everyone is thrown out of the air,” said Trump.

A deposit of 25 billion US dollars for Golden Dome was included in a republican “reconciliation expenditure”, which would add 150 billion US dollars to the Pentagon in the 2025 billion. This calculation has not yet passed the congress. Democratic legislators have opposed the project, and cited concerns about the massive price tag and the warnings that such a comprehensive rocket sign could trigger a race and escalate global tensions.

Trump mentioned that Canada was interested in working with the USA at the Golden Dome initiative.

The banks emphasized the economic advantages of the program for its voters and found that Golden Dome “will be very good for the defense industry in my state”. Satellite sensor for the rocket defense system is produced by L3Harris Technologies in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Guetleins experience

When choosing Guetlein as a program manager, Trump praised the “unmatched background in rocket warning technology and the procurement of the general” of the General and said he also knows that we have to move quickly. Nobody is more qualified for their job.

Guetlein is currently serving as a second Space Force commander as Vice Chief of Space Operations. Previously, he commanded the Space Systems Command, where he was responsible for the development and acquisition of satellites, starting services and other important systems.

His curriculum vitae includes the service as deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office and as a program manager for programs and integration in the rocket defense agency before moving from the US Air Force to Space Force.

In recent years, Guetlein has been a loud advocate of the integration of artificial intelligence, machine learning and commercial technologies in national security strategies.

Guetlein compared the extent of the golden dome with the Manhattan project and underlined the national mobilization and cross-agency integration required for success. He has found that the biggest challenge for the program will probably be organizational behavior and culture – in particular the integration of different agencies and the overcoming of bureaucratic obstacles to the defense company.

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