WASHINGTON — The general in charge of America’s Golden Dome missile defense shield said today that a high-profile and technologically ambitious element of the project, space-based interceptors (SBIs), may not make it into the final architecture as originally envisioned if the tech is shown to be prohibitively costly.
“We are so focused on affordability. If we cannot do it affordab[ly], we will not go into production,” Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein told members of a House Armed Services Strategic Forces subcommittee today.
“Because we are looking at the threats from a multi-domain perspective to make sure I have redundant capabilities and I don’t have single points of failure,” he added. “So, if boost-phase intercept from space is not affordable and…
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