Anduril, Palantir are developing Golden Dome Missile Shield's software

Anduril Industries, founded by Palmer Luckey, and Palantir Technologies, co-founded by Peter Thiel, have been selected to develop the core software that will run President Trump’s planned Golden Dome national antimissile shield.

The two companies form the backbone of a private consortium now building the AI-driven command-and-control system that will connect radars, sensors and missile batteries to defend the entire United States and its territories from airborne attacks.

This software is described by Pentagon leaders as the critical “glue layer” that will allow commanders to detect threats, process data in real time and direct interceptors across every military service.

The consortium, which also includes Aalyria Technologies, Scale AI and Swoop Technologies, aims to have the system ready for live testing this summer. Traditional defense giants Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and RTX were later added as subcontractors to the tech firms.

If successful, the software could become the permanent foundation of the $185 billion Golden Dome program, handing Anduril and Palantir potentially billions of dollars in long-term development and maintenance contracts.

Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein, who leads the project, has called command-and-control the “secret sauce” of the entire shield. The software is the only Golden Dome element managed directly from his office.

This arrangement gives two private defense-tech companies unprecedented authority over America’s most critical homeland defense infrastructure.

The consortium’s immediate goal is to demonstrate that the system can integrate data from multiple sources, analyze it at speed and trigger defensive actions.