{"id":416599,"date":"2026-04-25T08:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416599\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:21:12","slug":"spacex-anduril-among-companies-to-win-golden-dome-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416599\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX, Anduril Among Companies to Win Golden Dome Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The US Space Force awarded 12 companies, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/LMT:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Lockheed Martin Corp<\/a>. and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/711339Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">SpaceX<\/a>, contracts worth up to $3.2 billion to develop prototypes for space-based interceptors under President Donald Trump\u2019s Golden Dome plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The companies will be tasked with demonstrating a capability for space-based interceptors by 2028, Space Force said in a press release. The interceptors, which are designed to destroy enemy missiles outside the Earth\u2019s atmosphere, are a key but unproven component of Golden Dome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Space Force awarded 12 companies, including Lockheed Martin Corp. and SpaceX, contracts worth up to $3.2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[182670,11507,182671,61,182669,60,59979,149393,182672,82,247,80,182668,115,3591],"class_list":["post-416599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-booz-allen-hamilton-holdings","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-general-dynamics-corp","tag-ie","tag-industries-inc","tag-ireland","tag-lockheed-martin-corp","tag-northrop-grumman-corp","tag-quindar-inc","tag-science","tag-space","tag-technology","tag-turion-space-corp","tag-united-states","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}