Overview
- Palantir and Anduril, which the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday were co-leading a software group, are developing the control layer with Aalyria, Scale AI and Swoop.
- Program director Gen. Michael Guetlein said last week the budget rose by $10 billion to $185 billion to speed space-based missile defenses.
- The software serves as the command brain that fuses satellite and radar tracks with response options so operators can direct interceptors in near real time.
- The consortium is targeting an initial software test this summer, a tight timetable that will reveal how well the pieces integrate under stress.
- Recent coverage ties the push to rising threat warnings, with Daily Mail citing the U.S. threat assessment that forecasts far more missiles able to target the homeland in the coming years.