The businesses anticipated to create U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome for America” know the target: to guard the U.S. from missiles and airborne threats. They realize it means billions of {dollars}’ value of contracts.
However they don’t know a lot about what, precisely, they’re anticipated to do — and at an occasion final week, the federal government officers who would possibly inform them weren’t even allowed to say the mission by identify.
Attendees on the twenty eighth annual House and Missile Protection Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama, noticed indicators early on that the subject on everybody’s minds is perhaps difficult to debate. Earlier than the occasion even started, the trade teams internet hosting it eliminated a Golden Dome-focused panel. “Data relating to Golden Dome for America might be promulgated by the federal government,” they mentioned.