The Missile Defense Agency wants to know why a solicitation for a big-ticket contract -- one that eventually tallied $3.2 billion -- failed to entice more than a single industry bid after the government spent many years designing an acquisition strategy that aimed to revive competition in the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program. On Feb. 27, MDA published a public notice formally asking industry -- effectively a handful of major defense contractors that support the agency -- for feedback on why...
