The Missile Defense Agency is seeking $1.7 billion in fiscal year 2027 for a classified special access program -- a more-than-threefold increase over the prior year -- in what appears to be a complementary funding stream that works alongside the administration's Golden Dome for America initiative. The FY-27 request for the agency's Special Programs-MDA budget line represents a dramatic departure from the project's historical funding profile and coincides with MDA's broader transformation to support the homeland missile defense architecture called...