Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Defense Umbrella Draws Industry Interest

President Donald Trump’s vision of protecting the US with a “Golden Dome” missile-defense system drew more than 360 company concept papers that Pentagon analysts are studying as they rush to come up with a workable plan as early as the next fiscal year.

Trump has compared the idea in his Jan. 27 executive order to Israel’s Iron Dome system, which defends a much smaller country, and to President Ronald Reagan’s unfulfilled quest for a space-based missile defense system that was widely known as “Star Wars.”

Options are due to the White House by early April. “Once we finally ...