WASHINGTON — The Defense Department’s Golden Dome program office is tackling the “real challenge” of “affordability” via acquisition reform, with a key focus on spurring development of artificial intelligence, according to a senior Pentagon official.
Marcia Holmes, DoD deputy director for Golden Dome, told the Miami Space Summit today that innovative approaches to acquisition are foundational to lowering the costs while quickly ramping up capabilities to integrate data from missile tracking satellites, develop space-based interceptors (SBIs) and automate a comprehensive command and control (C2) network to link sensors to shooters.
“The real challenge that we have today is how we integrate all of these space assets into an integrated architecture to provide…
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