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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, nearpeer, 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 nextgeneration 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. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

January 27, 2025. 

[FR Doc. 2025–02182 

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