ing and maintaining a next-generation missile 
defense shield; 
(B) the Federal Government will deter and 
defend the citizens and critical infrastructure of 
the United States against any foreign attack on 
the United States homeland; and 
(C) the Federal Government will guarantee 
the secure second-strike capability of the Fed-
eral Government. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) as the advanced long-range missile and un-
manned system threat continues to evolve, the threat 
of attack by ballistic, cruise missile, hypersonic mis-
sile, and unmanned system remains a significant 
threat to the United States with potentially cata-
strophic consequences; 
(2) China is rapidly expanding and modernizing 
its conventional forces to include ballistic missile sys-
tems posing an increasing threat to citizens, forces, 
and allies of the United States; 
(3) over the past 40 years, the sophistication 
and 
quantity 
of 
threats, 
including 
ballistic, 
hypersonic, cruise, and unmanned systems has be-
come substantial; 
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(4) contending only with rogue nation threats 
and accidental or unauthorized missile launches is 
no longer sufficient in the current and reasonably 
foreseeable future threat environment; 
(5) by empowering the United States with a 
second-strike capability, the Golden Dome will deter 
adversaries from attacks on the homeland; 
(6) to improve capabilities to defend adequately 
against increasing numbers and sophistication of 
threats to the homeland, rapid development and de-
ployment of space-based sensors and interceptors 
which take advantage of lower cost and technical 
commercial advances in recent years must be among 
the Defense Department’s highest priorities; 
(7) there is a need to fully integrate undersea, 
ground, air, and space-based sensors, interceptors, 
and command nodes through a secure and redun-
dant communications architecture; 
(8) there is a need to clearly delineate and ap-
propriately empower the leaders and agencies re-
sponsible for development, integration, and execution 
of the Golden Dome; 
(9) the United States must make achieving 
total domain awareness, from the seafloor to Outer 
Space to cyberspace, to provide early warning and 
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defeat of missile threats from both the northern and 
southern hemispheres across all warfighting domains 
a top priority; 
(10) a central component of Golden Dome will 
be the network and command and control systems; 
(11) substantial command and control and fire 
control capabilities exist now, but require investment 
to support any Golden Dome reference architecture; 
(12) a flexible, open-architecture approach for 
the Golden Dome will support spiral development; 
(13) Golden Dome prioritizes the defense of 
United States citizens in the homeland against all 
air and missile threats from all countries and re-
quires prioritization of critical assets to inform the 
Commander of United States Northern Command 
and the Commander of United States Indo-Pacific 
Command; 
(14) significant additional missile defense mod-
eling and simulation tools that measure friendly and 
adversary effects, such as kinetic, non-kinetic, di-
rected energy, are required; 
(15) the Executive order directs the ‘‘accelera-
tion of the deployment of the Hypersonic and Bal-
listic Tracking Space Sensor layer’’ (HBTSS) and is 
encouraged by the fact that HBTSS has already 
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been demonstrated successfully on-orbit by the Mis-
sile Defense Agency and is in active production with 
Space Development Agency; and 
(16) the space-based sensor industrial base has 
available capacity to accept the additional orders 
necessary to respond to the Executive order’s ex-
plicit direction to accelerate the deployment of 
HBTSS. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) COMMERCIAL SOLUTION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘commercial 
solution’’ means a product, other than real 
property, that— 
(i) is of a type customarily used by 
the general public or by nongovernmental 
entities for purposes other than govern-
mental purposes; and 
(ii)(I) has been sold, leased, or li-
censed to the general public; or 
(II) has been offered for sale, lease, or 
license to the general public. 
(B) INCLUSION
OF
COMMERCIAL
PROD-
UCTS, COMPONENTS, AND SERVICES.—The term 
‘‘commercial 
solution’’ 
includes 
commercial 
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products, components, and services in align-
ment with the Federal Government’s preference 
for the acquisition of commercial products and 
commercial services, as set forth in sections 
1906, 1907, and 3307 of title 41, United States 
Code, and sections 3451 through 3453 of title 
10, United States Code, which establish acquisi-
tion policies more closely resembling those of 
the commercial marketplace and encourage the 
acquisition of commercial products and com-
mercial services. 
(2) CONGRESSIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEES.— 
The term ‘‘congressional defense committees’’ has 
the meaning given such term in section 101(a) of 
title 10, United States Code. 
(3) GOLDEN DOME.—The term ‘‘Golden Dome’’ 
shall means the holistic missile defense architecture 
described in this Act. 
(4) MISSILE.—The term ‘‘missile’’ means a bal-
listic, hypersonic, cruise, hypersonic cruise, or loi-
tering munition. 
(5) PROGRAM MANAGER.—The term ‘‘Program 
Manager’’ means the Golden Dome Direct Report 
Program 
Manager 
appointed 
under 
section 
4(a)(4)(A). 
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