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Lozano: Army Looking To AI, Autonomy Capabilities For Contribution to Golden Dome

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, April 8th, 2025

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Lozano: Army Looking To AI, Autonomy Capabilities For Contribution to Golden Dome

Maj. Gen. Frank Lozano, Program Executive Officer, Missiles and Space, United States Army (Photo: U.S. Army)

The Army’s contribution to the Trump administration’s “Golden Dome for America” missile defense project will include looking at artificial intelligence-driven capabilities to enable remote operations and reduce the architecture’s manpower requirements, a senior official said Monday. Maj. Gen. Frank Lozano, program executive officer for missile and space, said the Army is “infancy” of thinking through and defining how it will approach the autonomous piece of Golden Dome. “What we’ve really been asked to consider as an Army contribution to Golden…

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