The Missile Defense Agency has selected Northrop Grumman to join L3Harris Technologies for the next phase of the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Senor project, a move that bumps Raytheon and Leidos from a contest to develop a next-generation, orbiting, infrared system to track ultrafast and maneuvering threats from launch to impact. On Jan. 22, MDA awarded Northrop Grumman Systems, Redondo Beach, CA, a $155 million firm-fixed price prototype other transaction for Phase IIb of the HBTSS program. "Under this...
