MISSION ASSURANCE ACCELERATOR FOR
GOLDEN DOME
Transforming data into decision advantage at speed:
Faster, smarter integration solutions that keep America ready
KBR is a trusted partner providing vendor-neutral digital transformation capabilities for Golden Dome for America. We rapidly transform complex mission data into actionable insight, accelerating decision advantage for American warfighters. We architect, prototype, validate and verify solutions at speed and scale, ensuring the government retains open designs and data rights, preserves competition and reduces its risk and costs.
Next-Gen Technology
KBR brings next-generation technology and deep-rooted space and missile defense expertise to advance Golden Dome, protecting the U.S. from modern threats. As an integrator of missile defense systems including Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), KBR offers the digital glue enabling systems to exchange information seamlessly and neutralizing interoperability gaps. KBR’s expertise spans integrated air and missile defense, space domain awareness, directed energy weapons, digital engineering, systems engineering, mission planning and execution across multi-domain operations.
Proven Solutions
KBR delivers a deep understanding of integrated, flexible and credible defense solutions to directly enhance Golden Dome’s mandate of fast-tracking mission effectiveness. KBR applies advanced data, modeling and simulation, driving significant cost savings by performing tests in virtual environments, executing prototypes and experiments and transferring the innovative capabilities to warfighters. Our rapid analysis of real‑world operational events delivers actionable insights on accelerated timelines to support time‑critical mission decisions.
LINES OF EFFORT
KBR’s major lines of effort to support Golden Dome are all fueled by digital transformation. We offer these capabilities at secure locations across the U.S. and, upon request, can provide active contracts with national security customers in each area below:
Long-Range Kill Chain Engineering and Analysis
We design, model, integrate and optimize end-to-end sensor-to-shooter processes across multi-domain environments, powering high-speed, resilient threat detection, sense-making, targeting, engagement and assessment.
Enterprise Architecture
We develop, manage and evaluate mission and system architectures for the most optimized performance, the lowest risk and the strictest alignment with mission objectives.
Rapid
Prototyping
We offer iterative, accelerated development of functional prototypes, both digital and hard copy, to refine requirements and reduce technical risk. KBR’s digital twin and model-based system engineering environment uses rapid prototyping to create large-scale system modeling, simulation, software development, system architecture development and additive manufacturing of virtual missions in a digital setting. As a trusted partner to our customers, many of these prototypes are for Government Purpose Rights.
Sense
Making
We transform raw multi-domain and multi-phenomenology sensor data into decision-ready insight by fusing intelligence, modeling and simulation outputs, cyber and space domain inputs and mission‑thread context to pinpoint threats and opportunities across the kill chain.
Modeling and
Simulation
We channel our technical, analytical and operational capabilities matrix covering mission‑level modeling, threat simulation, analytics and digital engineering integration. Our expert modeling and simulation ecosystems have been used to hypothesize, develop and test new technologies including sensors and data processing algorithms/software and real-time battle management command and control.
Test and
Evaluation
We lead a rigorous and systematic process of planning, executing, and assessing tests to evaluate system effectiveness, suitability, safety and readiness. We partner with the Department of War to conduct end-to-end experimentation across multiple systems and scale capabilities to handle the volume and speed required for real-world mission operations.
KEY GOLDEN DOME CAPABILITIES
Data-Driven Decision Superiority
KBR offers exquisite engineering services to optimize systems in complex architectures and environments. KBR’s solutions are the digital glue for smarter situational awareness and applying advanced concepts. KBR’s Government Defense Architecture transforms mission data into actionable insight, strengthening the national defense posture and enabling rapid, informed decision-making.
The Digital Glue for Golden Dome
Advanced Data Integration
KBR integrates complex systems – and systems of systems – using government-approved methods and digital tools. We offer expertise in all-domain sensors, correlation and data fusion and analysis, all of which enable accelerated decision-making powered by AI and machine learning (ML). KBR’s experience integrating systems across combatant commands, federal agencies and joint operational environments positions us to help Golden Dome function as a unified, interagency capability.
Faster, Smarter Government Missions
Mission-Accelerating Solutions
KBR translates Golden Dome’s goals and challenges into concrete design tasks and deliverables. We coordinate design work across domains and security levels, manage requirements and harness both human expertise and AI tools to ensure speed and decision advantage. Our business model supports Title 10/50 integration, vendor-agnostic analysis, model-based systems engineering, modeling and simulation along with project management functions.
KBR’s technology accelerators simulate and test new architectures in operational scenarios, support AI/ML engineering and enable vendor-agnostic algorithm development. The approach includes independent verification and validation, digital engineering integration and continuous integration and development. We use virtual prototypes to reduce risk, accelerate development timelines and drive meaningful cost savings for our government customers.
Decision Advantage at Max Speed
Architecture Engineering Expertise
KBR’s expertise ensures complex architectures function as required without vendor lock, meeting Golden Dome’s most significant technical challenges. Our scientists and engineers produce solutions with a deep understanding of the physics behind the demand for persistent space-based sensing and the feasibility of hitting targets across the engagement spectrum such as missiles in boost phase, the threat of hypersonic and low-flying missiles and the need to distinguish real warheads from decoys or debris. KBR identifies architectural gaps, strengthens system resilience and integrates advanced detection, tracking and engagement capabilities.
Accelerate the Golden Dome Mission.
THINK KBR.
GOLDEN DOMAINS
Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense
KBR develops, integrates and evaluates U.S. missile defense and aviation platforms and systems in the complex threat environment Golden Dome faces. KBR’s air and missile defense expertise includes systems engineering and integration, technical analysis, modeling and simulation, digital engineering, testing and evaluation, sustainment, trade space exploration and analysis and full-spectrum life cycle programmatic support. KBR’s team of engineers, intel analysts, test pilots and operators have championed leading-edge air, maritime, and missile operations for more than 45 years.
Space Domain Awareness
KBR specializes in the critical Golden Dome component of space domain awareness. Our reputation for delivering on high-visibility space defense programs for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force includes integrating AI to bring decision support to American warfighters. Iron Stallion®, KBR’s next-generation monitoring platform, transforms space domain awareness through dynamic orchestration and real-time analytics. The platform executes sensor fusion of government and civilian, classified and unclassified, on-orbit and terrestrial systems to deliver unparalleled orbital domain awareness.
Directed
Energy
KBR has pioneered combat-capable directed energy systems, turning lasers into weapons to fight high-speed threats at the literal speed of light. KBR develops, tests and fields high-energy laser solutions and integrates complete laser weapon systems for the U.S. Army and Air Force. KBR also offers FIREFLY™, a high-energy laser system that provides a quick and sophisticated way to identify, classify and destroy asymmetric threats with significantly reduced size, weight, power and cost affordability.
Who We Help
U.S. Department of War
U.S. intelligence community
U.K. defence
Australia defence
Joint Integrated
Air and Missile Defense
KBR serves as a systems engineering integrator on many missile defense systems including Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), command and control systems like the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) and various sensors including the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS). We have supported the Patriot missile system for more than 40 years, and we enable maritime sensor integration, shipboard command and control interoperability, ensuring platforms operate seamlessly within joint air and missile defense architectures. KBR partners with the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force to provide counter-unmanned aircraft systems expertise to protect these critical systems and the warfighter.
Our teams apply ingenuity and deep subject matter expertise on Patriot, THAAD, IBCS and integrated air and missile defense efforts including E-2 expeditionary airborne early warning and forward-deployed kill chain support across tactical aircraft for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Space Force. As a systems integrator, KBR plays a pivotal role in making sure these systems can all communicate with each other so that America isn’t reliant on a single missile defense solution.
CAPABILITIES
Systems engineering and integration
Testing and evaluation
Modernization through digital engineering
Comprehensive integrated logistics
Space Domain
Awareness
Golden Dome requires a robust, worldwide Space Domain Awareness (SDA) capability, and KBR is ready to deliver. Our track record of success on high-impact U.S. Space Force and Air Force programs like Advanced Space Technology Research and Optimization (ASTRO) and MILSATCOM systems Engineering, Integration and Test (MSEIT) reflects our trusted reputation across a diverse customer base. These programs showcase our expertise in delivering advanced domain awareness and data transport solutions – critical components that will power the future of Golden Dome.
Building on this legacy of innovation and mission success, KBR continues to push the boundaries of what's possible in space domain awareness. At the forefront of this evolution is Iron Stallion®, our next-generation monitoring platform that transforms SDA through dynamic orchestration and real-time analytics. The product executes sensor fusion of government and civilian, classified and unclassified, on-orbit and terrestrial systems to deliver unparalleled orbital domain awareness.
CAPABILITIES
Space domain awareness
DevSecOps
AI/ML development
Real-time analytics
Dynamic orchestration
Sensor fusion
Directed
Energy
KBR’s design, fabrication, assembly, training, testing and integration expertise brings the speed-of-light capabilities of lethal laser weapons to the tactical edge of the battlefield. KBR has an industry-leading collection of directed energy subject matter experts with extensive backgrounds in electro-optics, software engineering, artificial intelligence/machine learning, predictive avoidance, systems engineering and integration.
KBR’s directed energy team leads the U.S. Army’s effort to develop its first fieldable high-energy laser (HEL) weapon system. The effort will ultimately result in the fielding of the Directed Energy Maneuver - Short Range Air Defense (DE M-SHORAD) system designed to defeat unmanned aerial systems, both rotary and fixed-wing, as well as rockets, artillery and mortars (RAM). The DE M-SHORAD system is a fully mobile, 50-kilowatt (kW)-class high energy laser capable of delivering sustained counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) and counter-rocket, artillery, mortar (C-RAM) firepower. KBR’s FIREFLYTM high-energy laser system, a self-contained directed energy solution, offers protection wherever defense is needed. The FIREFLY is a self-contained, palletized system that maximizes performance, reliability, maintainability and transportability. The FIREFLY is based on KBR’s scalable high-energy laser architecture and provides significantly reduced size, weight, power and cost affordability.
FIREFLY: Next-Generation Directed Energy Protection
Precision laser engagement neutralizes threat
DETECT
After receiving a cue from a radar or connected C2 system, advanced algorithms identify incoming unmanned aircraft system
TRACK
Sensor payload’s independent camera system establishes tracking at extended ranges identify incoming unmanned aircraft system
INTERCEPT
FIREFLY provides extended magazine depth
DEFEAT
Precision laser engagement neutralizes threat
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