[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 21 (Monday, February 3, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 8767-8769]
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[FR Doc No: 2025-02182]
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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, near-
peer, 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 next-generation 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.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 27, 2025.
[FR Doc. 2025-02182
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