Golden Dome details emerge from industry day

AI is expected to play a central role in the Golden Dome air-defense system, from helping to integrate today’s sensors and interceptors to accelerating the detection and tracking of threats, according to slides shown by Defense Department officials last week at an industry day in Huntsville, Alabama. The slides also provided new detail on the Pentagon’s ambitions for missile-killing satellites and other matters.

More than 3,000 people from the space and missile-defense sectors attended the daylong event, which was held amid—but was not formally affiliated with—the industry-group 2025 Space and Missile Defense Symposium. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth forbade Defense Department officials to discuss Golden Dome at the SMDS, and reporters were barred from the industry day, whose discussions were unclassified. 

Asked for details on the proceedings, a Missile Defense Agency spokesperson referred Defense One to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, which sent an email saying, in part, “The Golden Dome for America office is examining current and future solutions across the services and interagency to identify the most effective ways to modernize and quickly field the capabilities our nation needs to protect our homeland.”

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