General Guillot on Enhancing Missile Domain Awareness for Golden Dome

Critical Need for Domain Awareness

• 🎯 The domain awareness layer is identified as the most critical component for the future of missile defense, enabling the detection and tracking of threats.
• ⚠️ Without effective domain awareness, advanced interceptors and defeat capabilities would be rendered impossible to employ.

A Layered Approach to Detection

• 🌊 A seabed to space approach is necessary, starting with undersea sensors to detect stealthy submarines now capable of operating closer to North America.
• 📡 A ground layer is needed to detect advanced standoff weapons employed by adversaries at greater distances.
• ✈️ An air layer, like the E7, is crucial for closing the kill chain with fighter aircraft or surface-to-air systems.
• 🛰️ A space layer is essential for tracking airborne targets and systems like HBTSS, which can track hypersonics and provide early launch detection.

Golden Dome and Future Capabilities

• ⏳ The Golden Dome system is expected to leverage existing and developing systems, potentially achieving full capability within 0-5 years.
• 🚀 Key systems include HBTSS for hypersonics, space-based AMTI, over-the-horizon radars, and the E7 aircraft.

Spectrum Risk and Homeland Defense

• 📻 Losing control of the lower 3 GHz or 7-8 GHz spectrum would incur an extraordinarily high level of risk.
• 🛡️ Many critical systems for homeland defense, both current and future, rely on these specific spectrum ranges.

Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS)

• 🛰️ HBTSS is a prototype program designed to prove the technology for closing the hypersonic fire control loop from space.
• ✅ Early tests have successfully demonstrated the timeliness, latency, and sensitivity of the system for tracking hypersonic weapons.
• 📈 Algorithm updates are being implemented to further improve track quality, with follow-on operational tracking layers planned by the Space Force and Space Development Agency.