Lockheed Martin today won a Pentagon contract to build a miniature kill vehicle capable of destroying ballistic missiles in the midcourse phase of flight. The contract could be worth $768 million, according to a Defense Department statement. Lockheed was competing against teams led by Science Applications International Corp. and Chelmsford, MA-based Schafer Corp. "The MKV system will deploy multiple, small kill vehicles from a single carrier vehicle," DOD said in its statement. "The integrated payload will be designed to fit...
