Lockheed Martin has bested Northrop Grumman in a contest to build the Next Generation Interceptor, a development that establishes for a generation the beginning of a new order in the U.S. missile defense industrial base that will be filled out soon when a contest between Raytheon and Northrop is settled for the Glide Phase Interceptor. On April 15, the Missile Defense Agency announced the down-select decision for the follow-on homeland defense guided missile slated for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program,...
