Guam prioritized in Pentagon's $842B budget proposal.
The Missile Defense Agency's $10.9 billion fiscal 2024 budget prioritizes regional and homeland missile defense with a major focus on building an air and missile defense architecture in Guam. The agency is asking for more than $800 million to develop and begin constructing its architecture to defend Guam from air and missile threats. The architecture will defend against ballistic, hypersonic and cruise missile threats. The MDA also continues to develop its Glide-Phase Interceptor, capable of eliminating hypersonic missile threats, and is asking for $209 million in FY24 to fund an ongoing competition between Raytheon Technologies and Northrop Grumman.