The Missile Defense Agency selected Northrop Grumman as the winner of a $1.1 billion deal to supply sub-scale targets with simple and complex reentry vehicles. The contractor defeated Lockheed Martin in the two-way race to modernize a portion of the Defense Department's portfolio of targets and countermeasures used to test the Ballistic Missile Defense System. On Sept. 20, MDA announced Chandler, AZ-based Orbital Sciences, now part of Northrop Grumman's innovation systems business, as the winner of the new target program...
