The US House Drive launched a listing Friday of a dozen corporations engaged on House-Primarily based Interceptors for the Pentagon’s Golden Dome initiative, a multilayer protection system to defend US territory from drones and ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile assaults.
The roster of Golden Dome House-Primarily based Interceptor (SBI) contractors, a few of which had been beforehand reported, consists of Anduril Industries, Booz Allen Hamilton, Normal Dynamics Mission Methods, GITAI USA, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Quindar, Raytheon, Sci-Tec, SpaceX, True Anomaly, and Turion House.
The House Drive made 20 particular person awards the 12 corporations in late 2025 and early 2026 utilizing an acquisition mechanism often known as Different Transaction Authority, or OTA, agreements. OTAs permit the Pentagon to bypass federal acquisition laws and forged a large web to draw a bigger variety of potential contractors, and are particularly helpful for fast prototyping. That’s precisely what the House Drive needs to see with the primary part of the SBI program.
The agreements have a mixed worth of as much as $3.2 billion, and can capitalize on a mixture of private and non-private funding to maneuver SBIs nearer to testing in low-Earth orbit.
Officers don’t have any launched particulars of every firm’s contribution to this system, however the contractors come to the SBI program with totally different talent units. The agreements are for early stage improvement and tech demos, not for full-scale manufacturing, which can include a considerably larger price ticket.
“No extra info can be out there right now because of operational safety necessities concerning the SBI program,” the House Drive stated in an announcement.
The standard gamers
Among the corporations on the record, reminiscent of SpaceX, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman, are well-known within the area trade. They appear positioned to develop into lead or prime contractors. Others, reminiscent of Anduril and True Anomaly, are full-stack builders which can be newer to the area trade however have lofty ambitions within the nationwide safety market. Sci-Tec and Quindar have experience in software program. Turion develops area sensing expertise, and GITAI USA had its begin as an in-space robotics firm.
