Speaking outside the industry day, a Northrop Grumman official said they are exploring new ways to work with competitors to solve the data and integration challenges and “collaborate across those company boundaries quickly. That’s what’s going to enable Golden Dome.”

Despite the Pentagon’s “strange” secrecy about the project, recent reports have revealed details about the development of a U.S. missile-defense.

Within a week of his inauguration, President Trump issued an executive order to develop “The Iron Dome for America” (rebranded the “Golden Dome” a month later.) The eruption of a revived conflict between Israel and Iran in June has only strengthened the case for an American version of the Iron Dome in the eyes of the administration.