Sullivan Joins President Trump for ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Defense Announcement

Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), along with fellow senators Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), and Jim Banks (R-Ind.), recently joined President Donald Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Vice Chief of Space Operations General Michael Guetlein at the White House for an announcement about the administration’s plan for a ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense system for America.

The senators also used that time to announce the introduction of their legislation, the ‘Golden Dome Act’ to reinforce President Trump’s vision of a layered, integrated missile defense system to protect the United States from the intensifying threats and growing arsenals of China and Russia. It will also complement President Trump’s “Iron Dome” executive order, which he signed a week after his inauguration.

Senator Sullivan also emphasized the critical role Alaska plays in the nation’s missile defense system.

“When you look at the system that [President Trump] laid out, you have the initial ground-based missile interceptors, which are made by some of the big defense companies,” he said, adding that the vision for the ‘Golden Dome’ is “it's layered, it's open architecture, and it goes up into space. This is going to involve some of the new defense tech companies that are very interested and can bring missile defense at a cost that is lower than we could ever have imagined.”

Senator Sullivan said that he and Senator Cramer recently met with a several tech companies, who are going to be a key part of this.” I think that's what makes this announcement so exciting.”

“Alaska is a big part of [missile defense] because the location is sort of perfect,” said President Trump. “I think that's your first line of defense in certain instances.”