Kill Vehicle Tech

By John Liang / October 15, 2013 at 4:11 PM

The Missile Defense Agency announced last week that it intends to award contracts to Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Raytheon Missile Systems and Boeing to continue working on an initiative to work on kill vehicle technologies for the Ground Based Interceptor.

"These three companies have been the prime contractors for the [concept definition and program planning] contracts," an Oct. 10 Federal Business Opportunities notice states. "The contract modification will increase the scope of the CDPP contract to include technology and concepts for kill vehicles (KVs) and component or subsystem technology applicability to the Ground Based Interceptor (GBI)."

Based on responses to a request for information, the agency "determined this expertise cannot be obtained by any other contractor. The anticipated period of performance for this contract action is approximately November 2013 through April 2014," according to the notice.

The announcement does not include a dollar amount.

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