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Golden Dome: Nonkinetic weapon performance methods for negating and automating asymmetric missile-defense threats left of launch - Story
October 10, 2025Current global instability, continued proliferation of medium- and long-range missiles, and increasingly sophisticated threats such as maneuvering reentry vehicles pose significant challenges for fielded ballistic missile defense systems (BMDSs). In response to progressively heightened real-time threats, Golden Dome’s three-year gauntlet has been laid down. Exponential technology evolution has created broad-spectrum, nonkinetic opportunities to qualitatively augment BMDS. A probabilistic “system of systems” (SoS) approach is described to harness kinetic, nonkinetic, and automated cross-domain access and transfer solutions for enabling secure C5ISR [command, control, computers, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] systems and artificial intelligence (AI) platform interoperability. The cross-domain solutions can then be expeditiously deployed from cloud service provider (CSP) data centers to the tactical edge. The SoS approach aids enhanced qualitative decision-making and effector competence to satisfy complex battle operations “left of launch.”
