(6) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Defense. 
(7) UNMANNED
SYSTEM.—The term ‘‘un-
manned system’’ means a remote-operated or auton-
omous unmanned system of any size maneuvering in 
land, sea, air, or space that is capable of single at-
tacks, swarm attacks, or sensor and data collection 
and reconnaissance. 
SEC. 4. IMPROVING UNITED STATES MISSILE DEFENSE CA-
PABILITIES. 
(a) DEVELOPMENT
OF
A HOLISTIC MISSILE DE-
FENSE STRATEGY; GOLDEN DOME ADMINISTRATION.— 
(1) DEVELOPMENT OF A HOLISTIC MISSILE DE-
FENSE STRATEGY.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Defense shall develop a holistic missile defense strat-
egy informed by discussions with and suggestions 
from such other government agencies as the Sec-
retary deems necessary to determine which critical 
infrastructure must be defended, against which ad-
versaries, and from which specific capabilities, in-
cluding from both missiles and unmanned systems. 
(2) ALL-DOMAIN
AWARENESS.—The strategy 
developed pursuant to paragraph (1) shall include 
plans for a system of layered sensors from the 
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seafloor to space and cyberspace to provide per-
sistent all-domain awareness. 
(3) INTEGRATED, REDUNDANT COMMAND AND 
CONTROL.—The strategy developed pursuant to 
paragraph (1) shall include plans for integrated, se-
cure, open, and redundant command and control 
software and technology architecture for the nation-
wide missile defense system and shall designate a 
clear human chain of command for control of such 
systems and responses. 
(4) LEADERSHIP.— 
(A) ESTABLISHMENT OF A GOLDEN DOME 
DIRECT REPORT PROGRAM MANAGER.—There is 
established a Golden Dome Direct Report Pro-
gram Manager, who shall be appointed by the 
Secretary from among the general officers of 
the Army, Air Force, Space Force, or flag offi-
cers of the Navy and Marine Corps. 
(B) GRADE.—The individual serving as the 
Program Manager, while so serving, shall have 
the grade of general without vacating the per-
manent grade of the officer and will be placed 
directly under the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs 
of Staff in the Department of Defense order of 
precedence. 
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(C) 
RESPONSIBILITIES.—The 
Program 
Manager shall be responsible for the acquisi-
tion, contracting, development, testing, and ini-
tial operations and sustainment of Golden 
Dome. 
(D) REPORTING
AND
AUTHORITY.—Sub-
ject to the authority, direction, and control of 
the Secretary, the Program Manager shall— 
(i) report directly to the Deputy Sec-
retary of Defense; 
(ii) have the acquisition authorities 
equivalent to Defense Acquisition Execu-
tives, including milestone decision author-
ity, contracting authority, direct hiring au-
thority, direct liaison authority with con-
gressional oversight committees, original 
classification authority, expedited military 
construction authority, and technical au-
thority for missile defense of the homeland; 
(iii) have full authority to budget for 
Golden Dome and perform oversight of 
funds identified to be in support of Golden 
Dome across all categories of budget au-
thority, 
regardless 
of 
reprogramming 
thresholds; and 
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(iv) establish Golden Dome program 
elements and programs consistent with the 
format used by the President for submittal 
of the budget of the President pursuant to 
section 1105(a) of title 31, United States 
Code, to facilitate oversight by Congress. 
(E) EXCEPTION FROM CERTAIN MANUAL 
AND DIRECTIVE.—Programs or projects carried 
out under the authority of this section shall not 
be subject to the Joint Capabilities Integration 
and Development System Manual and Depart-
ment of Defense Directive 5000.01, or suc-
cessor manuals and directives. The Program 
Manager shall use all lawful acquisition and 
procurement methods necessary outside of this 
process to carry out the accelerated implemen-
tation and execution of Golden Dome. 
(F) PROTECTION FROM INTERVENTION.— 
Unless otherwise directed by the President, the 
Secretary, or statute, no officer other than the 
Secretary of Defense may intervene to exercise, 
authority, direction, interference, including un-
reasonable delays in answering requests for in-
formation or other requests relating to the im-
plementation or execution of Golden Dome or 
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its subsystems, or control over the Program 
Manager in the discharge of responsibilities 
specified in subparagraph (C) and authority 
specified in subparagraph (D). 
(G) AUTHORITY
TO
WORK
WITH
OTHER 
FEDERAL AGENCIES.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—The Program Man-
ager may work with other Federal agen-
cies, including the Department of Home-
land Security, the Federal Communications 
Commission, the Federal Aviation Admin-
istration, and the various elements of the 
intelligence community, to expedite re-
search, testing, and execution of any Gold-
en Dome-related systems. 
(ii) PRIORITY
FOR
DECISION
RE-
QUESTS.—In any case in which a Federal 
agency receives a decision request under 
clause (i) relating to the planning and im-
plementation of Golden Dome, the head of 
the Federal agency shall prioritize the deci-
sion request. 
(5) LEVERAGING DISTRIBUTED, ADVANCED, AD-
DITIVE MANUFACTURING.—The Secretary shall de-
velop and implement a plan for leveraging distrib-
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