Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.), a co-chair of the Golden Dome Caucus in Congress and a member of the House Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces panel, discusses the transformative defense investments heading to Colorado Springs, including a new $250 million Space Operations Facility projected to bring thousands of civilian and military jobs to the region, as well as the anticipated growth of Space Force personnel at Peterson Space Force Base.

Defense Daily interviewed Rep. Jeff Crank in Colorado Springs, Colo., where he outlined the three major defense initiatives already confirmed for the area while offering insight into the broader Golden Dome missile defense program — its architecture, timeline, and the communities most likely to benefit from its rollout.

Jeff shares his assessment of Gen. Guetlein’s leadership of the Golden Dome effort, the technical complexity driving the program’s pace, and why he remains confident the multi-layered space-based defense architecture is both sound and achievable, even as he acknowledges the urgency to move faster.