Comment:  Time will tell on all of this as to completion estimates.

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/sentinel-shifting-to-golden-dome-under-ndaa-gop-senators-say/?printmode=1

Sarah Salem  2 Dec 2025

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North and South Dakota Sens. John Hoeven (R) and Mike Rounds (R), respectively, said the Northrop Grumman future intercontinental ballistic missile Sentinel will be under the Golden Dome project in upcoming defense bills.

“The project itself, it will be a part of an Iron Dome project, or a Golden Dome Project,” Rounds told the Exchange Monitor in the halls of the Capitol in Washington Tuesday. “So Sentinel is moving.”

The Air Force had not responded to a request for comment by press time on Tuesday. The direct reporting portfolio manager (DRPM) for Golden Dome is Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein, while the White House last month nominated Lt. Gen. Dale White for his fourth star as the DRPM for Sentinel and the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider stealth bomber, as well as the Boeing F-47 fighter and Air Force One.

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Sentinel will eventually replace Minuteman III sometime in the 2030s while the Minuteman III is still commissioned. The last Minuteman III was originally expected to be decommissioned in the mid-2030s, but Maj. Gen. Stacy Jo Huser, commander of the 20th Air Force in the Air Force Global Strike Command, told the Monitor in January Minuteman III would now be decommissioned by at least 2050.

Trump wants the Golden Dome completed by the end of his term.