The Missile Defense Agency is pumping $104 million into the Glide Phase Interceptor program, awarding RTX, formerly Raytheon Technologies, and Northrop Grumman $52 million options each for competing technology development efforts to design variants of a ship-launched missile capable of protecting an aircraft carrier from a long-range hypersonic weapon. On Nov. 15, MDA announced the contract awards, which raise the value over the last two years of Northrop’s work on GPI to $291 million and RTX’s to $293 million. The...
