The Defense Department has mapped out a $10 billion plan to prototype two competing designs for a Next Generation Interceptor, select a winner in 2025 and field by 2027 the new hit-to-kill weapon system top brass say is needed to defeat North Korea's improving inventory of intercontinental ballistic missiles. The Missile Defense Agency’s fiscal year 2023 budget request provides new details about the timing of the competition between Lockheed Martin and a Northrop Grumman-Raytheon team, setting FY-25 for a down-select...