Lawmakers recently introduced legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s executive order calling for the creation of an “Iron Dome for America,” which provided new insight into how the government and military may go about upgrading the homeland’s air defense systems.

Learn about the notice issued by the Space Development Agency calling for executive summaries on the conceptual Iron Dome for America missile defense system.

But a key part of the sensor integration could be done in less than a year with proper funding, the leader of U.S. Northern Command told lawmakers.