Anduril has named five partners for its Space Force contract to prototype space-based interceptors for Golden Dome: Impulse Space, K2 Space, Inversion Space, Voyager Technologies and Sandia National Laboratories. It announced the team on 5 May 2026 without saying what each will do, Via Satellite reported.
Space Systems Command announced the awards on 24 April: 20 agreements with 12 companies, signed in late 2025 and early 2026, worth up to $3.2 billion combined. That is a ceiling, and no company’s share has been published. Besides Anduril the release names Booz Allen Hamilton, General Dynamics Mission Systems, GITAI USA, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Quindar, Raytheon, Sci-Tec, True Anomaly and Turion Space; trade press lists SpaceX as the twelfth.
Some partners have said a little. K2 Space will provide its Mega-class satellites to host interceptors. Impulse Space has already flown Anduril payloads on its Mira spacecraft. Inversion Space builds re-entry vehicles, and Sandia brings “decades of experience in advanced weapons development”, said Scott McEntire, its senior hypersonics manager. Voyager’s chief executive, Dylan Taylor, told investors he had to be vague about its role.
The competition runs through four gates. Gen. Michael Guetlein, who leads Golden Dome, said on 11 August that it had passed the first and all providers were going on to the second, building something that can fly in space. The third and fourth prove it in orbit and inside the wider missile-defence system. The Space Force aims to show an initial capability in 2028.
Nothing is certain to reach production. “If boost-phase intercept from space is not affordable and scalable, we will not produce it,” Guetlein told Congress in April.
Money is the other risk. The 2027 budget request seeks about $17.5 billion for Golden Dome, but only about $397 million sits in the base budget; the rest depends on a reconciliation bill. “If [lawmakers] don’t figure it out, there is no Golden Dome,” Guetlein said in August, DefenseScoop reported.
Of the competitors, Northrop Grumman says it is on track for an interceptor in orbit in 2027. Anduril’s team has not announced a test.
