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MDA Should Not Lead Golden Dome, Griffin And Porter Say

Monday, March 24th, 2025

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MDA Should Not Lead Golden Dome, Griffin And Porter Say

Michael Griffin, former undersecretary of defense for research and engineering (Photo: Department of Defense)

Two former Defense Department officials from the first Trump administration last week argued a new person and organization should be put in charge of the White House’s new Golden Dome initiative, rather than the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). “This is a new and more comprehensive enterprise. So saying that a legacy enterprise like MDA can automatically up its game and be in charge of the architectural and acquisition and technical thinking that's required, I think, is probably wrong,” Michael Griffin,…

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