The Jerusalem Post reports: “The US Space Force has awarded about a half dozen small Golden Dome contracts to build competing missile defense prototypes, kicking off a race for future deals worth tens of billions of dollars, according to two sources briefed on the matter.

The awards went to several companies, including Northrop Grumman NOC.N, True Anomaly, Lockheed Martin LMT.N, and Anduril, the sources said.

The contracts mark a significant step forward in the Pentagon’s efforts to track and destroy enemy missiles, and include prototypes of space-based interceptors and related systems…”