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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 21 (Monday, February 3, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 8767-8769]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02182]



                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 21 / Monday, February 3, 2025 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Executive Order 14186 of January 27, 2025

                
The Iron Dome for America

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, including my authority as Commander in Chief 
                of the Armed Forces of the United States, it is hereby 
                ordered:

                Section 1. Purpose. The threat of attack by ballistic, 
                hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced 
                aerial attacks, remains the most catastrophic threat 
                facing the United States.

                President Ronald Reagan endeavored to build an 
                effective defense against nuclear attacks, and while 
                this program resulted in many technological advances, 
                it was canceled before its goal could be realized. And 
                since the United States withdrew from the Anti-
                Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 and initiated 
                development of limited homeland missile defense, 
                official United States homeland missile defense policy 
                has remained only to stay ahead of rogue-nation threats 
                and accidental or unauthorized missile launches.

                Over the past 40 years, rather than lessening, the 
                threat from next-generation strategic weapons has 
                become more intense and complex with the development by 
                peer and near-peer adversaries of next-generation 
                delivery systems and their own homeland integrated air 
                and missile defense capabilities.

                Sec. 2. Policy. To further the goal of peace through 
                strength, it is the policy of the United States that:

                    (a) The United States will provide for the common 
                defense of its citizens and the Nation by deploying and 
                maintaining a next-generation missile defense shield;
                    (b) The United States will deter--and defend its 
                citizens and critical infrastructure against--any 
                foreign aerial attack on the Homeland; and
                    (c) The United States will guarantee its secure 
                second-strike capability.

                Sec. 3. Implementation. Within 60 days of the date of 
                this order, the Secretary of Defense shall:

                    (a) Submit to the President a reference 
                architecture, capabilities-based requirements, and an 
                implementation plan for the next-generation missile 
                defense shield. The architecture shall include, at a 
                minimum, plans for:

(i) Defense of the United States against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced 
cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks from peer, near-
peer, and rogue adversaries;

(ii) Acceleration of the deployment of the Hypersonic and Ballistic 
Tracking Space Sensor layer;

(iii) Development and deployment of proliferated space-based interceptors 
capable of boost-phase intercept;

(iv) Deployment of underlayer and terminal-phase intercept capabilities 
postured to defeat a countervalue attack;

(v) Development and deployment of a custody layer of the Proliferated 
Warfighter Space Architecture;

(vi) Development and deployment of capabilities to defeat missile attacks 
prior to launch and in the boost phase;

(vii) Development and deployment of a secure supply chain for all 
components with next-generation security and resilience features; and

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(viii) Development and deployment of non-kinetic capabilities to augment 
the kinetic defeat of ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and 
other next-generation aerial attacks;

                    (b) Review relevant authorities and organization of 
                the Department of Defense to develop and deploy 
                capabilities at the necessary speed to implement this 
                directive;
                    (c) Jointly with the Director of the Office of 
                Management and Budget, submit to the President a plan 
                to fund this directive, allowing sufficient time for 
                consideration by the President before finalization of 
                the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget; and
                    (d) In cooperation with United States Strategic 
                Command and United States Northern Command, submit to 
                the President:

(i) An updated assessment of the strategic missile threat to the Homeland; 
and

(ii) A prioritized set of locations to progressively defend against a 
countervalue attack by nuclear adversaries.

                Sec. 4. Allied and Theater Missile Defense Review. The 
                United States continues to cooperate on missile defense 
                with its allies and partners to aid in the defense of 
                ally populations and troops and of forward-deployed 
                United States troops. Following the submission to the 
                President of the next-generation missile defense 
                reference architecture under section 3(a) of this 
                order, the Secretary of Defense shall direct a review 
                of theater missile defense posture and initiatives to 
                identify ways in which the United States and its allies 
                and partners can:

                    (a) Increase bilateral and multilateral cooperation 
                on missile defense technology development, 
                capabilities, and operations;
                    (b) Improve theater missile defenses of forward-
                deployed United States troops and allied territories, 
                troops, and populations; and
                    (c) Increase and accelerate the provision of United 
                States missile defense capabilities to allies and 
                partners.

                Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order 
                shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.

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                    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    January 27, 2025.

[FR Doc. 2025-02182
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