GOLDEN DOME

Validated Threat Modeling and Simulation for Golden Dome

One of the most ambitious defense initiatives in U.S. history, Golden Dome will require multi-domain coordination and intelligence fusion across land, sea, air, and space-based platforms. Success will hinge on deep collaboration across government and industry partners that bring innovative capabilities to this complex challenge.

Astrion provides the digital backbone for Golden Dome — connecting space, missile defense, and counter-UAS missions within a shared, validated threat environment. Our PULSE simulation framework enables teams to model, visualize, and demonstrate layered defense architectures with precision and speed. A mid-tier contractor built to meet the demands of Golden Dome Architecture (GDA), Astrion is broad enough to address system-of-systems complexity, and agile enough to adapt to fast-moving mission needs.

A Leader in Integrated Missile Defense

Our Threat Engineering Modeling and Simulations capabilities — long regarded as the benchmark for the Navy’s AEGIS and AEGIS Ashore testing—are now paired with open, cloud-based AI architectures already supporting the Missile Defense Agency (MDA).

  • Our PULSE simulation framework enables teams to model, visualize, and demonstrate layered defense architectures with precision and speed.
  • PULSEbox, our web-based interface visualizes and analyzes key threat objects, intercept events and physical phenomena, and integrate radar, infrared, and trajectory data in a unified operational view. 
  • GENESIS (Generic Environment Simulation Stage), a flexible component-based simulation architecture built in C++ with a Python layer, supports both high-fidelity and multi-fidelity modeling of flight and motion dynamics — allowing users to model systems with either open or closed-loop approaches, including internal component behavior. Its integration with PULSE enables realistic RF signature calculation and interaction with other phenomenology models, ultimately allowing for the creation of easily deployable, executable simulations of missile and kinematic platforms.

Together, these solutions lay the groundwork for the future Golden Dome Weapon System.

years advancing threat engineering for missile defense
faster architecture validation through accredited digital environments
domain coverage — land, air, sea, space, cyber 

Core Capabilities

Astrion delivers full-spectrum support for enterprise and in-theater operations, providing:

Threat Engineering

  • Physics-based modeling
  • Sensor and signature modeling
  • Radar and scene modernization
  • Mission planning and analysis
  • Vehicle design and kinematic modeling

Digital Integration

  • AI/ML for threat prediction
  • Live-Virtual-Constructive (LVC) environments
  • Hypersonic wake and electronic warfare (EW) simulation
  • Next-gen launch vehicle certification

Built for the Golden Dome Mission

Astrion is a trusted, agnostic partner, delivering technically rigorous solutions that integrate across domains and agencies. We support the full chain detect, track, identify, engage, intercept, and assess across the full spectrum of Golden Dome operations — bridging the critical seams between space, missile defense, and combatant command integration.

Our work helps prove layered kill-chain feasibility early — through all-domain demonstrations that connect sensors, shooters, and command and control (C2) within months, not years.

MEET OUR EXPERTS

Logan Palmer

VP, National Security

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Kevin Brady

VP, Navy and MDA

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Roger Kylin

VP Technical Director

SEG, an Astrion Company

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