Gen. Mike Guetlein speaks with operators of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in Dededo, Guam, a site that will support the Golden Dome next-generation, layered defense system. Credit: U.S. Navy
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The Pentagon created a digital portal designed to give contractors, startups, investors and universities a more direct path into the Golden Dome missile defense program, one of the government’s most closely held defense initiatives.
The “Golden Dome for America Ecosystem Hub,” announced Tuesday at the Space & Missile Defense Symposium, is intended to provide companies with a channel to submit concepts and gain access to unclassified information about the program’s technology needs, even as most of the architecture remains classified.
“We have tried to make our doors as wide open as possible,” Gen. Michael Guetlein, who leads the Golden Dome program, said Aug. 11 during a fireside discussion.
Guetlein said he has already met individually with more than 500 companies to discuss technologies that could contribute to the proposed homeland missile defense architecture.
