Golden Dome Secrecy Poses Challenge for Estimating Costs

Golden Dome Secrecy Poses Challenge for Estimating Costs

While Pentagon officials have revealed some details about the architecture behind the Golden Dome missile defense project, crafting an independent cost estimate for a largely classified program remains a challenge, experts said Aug. 19. President Donald Trump issued an executive order in January 2025 directing the Pentagon to build a multilayered missile defense shield to protect the U.S. from traditional and advanced missile threats, to includ…

Pentagon rebuffed repeated requests for Golden Dome brief: CBO

David Mosher, head of the Congressional Budget Office’s National Security Directorate, stressed that the watchdog office was tasked with estimating the price tag for implementing Trump’s January 2025 executive order, not any DoD plans.

DoD Declined To Brief CBO On Golden Dome

The Defense Department’s Golden Dome office has declined repeated briefing requests from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on what the Pentagon is planning to build while the head of that […]