Golden Dome Winners: Stocks on the Pentagon’s SHIELD Vendor List – Kratos Defense & Security (NASDAQ:KTOS), L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX), Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR)

The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract is the $151 billion backbone of the Pentagon’s Golden Dome initiative. 

Often compared to a modern-day Star Wars program, the Golden Dome aims to create an impenetrable, multi-layered defensive canopy over the United States to intercept everything from traditional ballistic missiles to next-generation hypersonic threats.

To achieve this level of scale, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is abandoning traditional, slow-moving procurement in favor of a massive, competitive marketplace. 

By approving over 2,400 companies as vendors, the MDA is ensuring it can fast-track innovation through a series of staggered awards and rapid-fire task orders.

For investors, the vendor list represents the official pool of excellence. A spot on the list is not a guaranteed payday, it is a “license to hunt“ for a piece of one of the largest defense contracts in U.S. history.

Here are some of the most notable publicly traded companies that have been officially named to the SHIELD vendor list:

1. Aerospace & Defense Giants (The Primes)

These are the heavy hitters who typically win the largest task orders. They provide the hardware, missiles, and massive radar systems.