Speaking outside the industry day, a Northrop Grumman official said they are exploring new ways to work with competitors to solve the data and integration challenges and “collaborate across those company boundaries quickly. That’s what’s going to enable Golden Dome.”

Despite the Pentagon’s “strange” secrecy about the project, recent reports have revealed details about the development of a U.S. missile-defense.

Golden Dome is the most publicly discussed U.S. defense project in years — except by the people commissioning it. The big picture: The Trump administration is mum about its $175 billion hemispheric missile shield,