FT. STORY, Va. — The Pentagon’s Golden Dome project is slated to cost upwards of $185 billion, with $17 billion alone planned for fiscal year 2027. And with all that money comes attention — and a mandate to sell the ambitious idea to the taxpaying public, the program’s head acknowledged today.
“We need to show the public that we are making progress, that this isn’t just a paper exercise,” Golden Dome program manager Gen. Michael Guetlein told a small group at Joint Expeditionary Base (JEB) Little Creek-Fort Story.
Exhibit A in the Guetlein’s argument: the Army’s advanced Long-Range Persistent Surveillance (ALPS), a system that has been used abroad but is now ensconced right next to the Ft. Story baseball field. It, along with other unidentified systems…
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