IRONDOME Act of 2025
Current understanding
The IRONDOME Act of 2025 would direct the Department of Defense to develop a multi-year plan to transfer missile defense operations from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to the military departments, and to accelerate development and fielding of space-based interceptors, airships, and drone/satellite systems for homeland missile defense. It builds on an existing executive order but adds statutory requirements for restructuring the U.S. missile defense architecture. Status: introduced; fiscal and organizational implications (MDA workforce/budget transfer, new acquisition lines for space-based and airborne systems) are not yet scored.
Evidence log
- 2025-02-12 — United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025: cross-connection with us-israel-defense-partnership-act-2025: Parallel US-Israel defense cooperation vehicles; IRONDOME focuses on missile defense architecture while the Partnership Act broadens joint RDT&E into counter-UAS, AI, and robotics. (novelty: 3)