AI is expected to play a central role in the Golden Dome air-defense system, from helping to integrate today’s sensors and interceptors to accelerating the detection and tracking of threats, according to slides shown by Defense Department officials last week at an industry day in Huntsville, Alabama. The slides also provided new detail on the Pentagon’s ambitions for missile-killing satellites and other matters.

More than 3,000 people from the space and missile-defense sectors attended the daylong event, which was held amid—but was not formally affiliated with—the industry-group 2025 Space and Missile Defense Symposium . Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth forbade Defense Department officials to discuss Golden Dome at the SMDS, and reporters were barred from the industry day, whose disc

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