Lockheed Martin will not protest the Missile Defense Agency's awarding of a multibillion-dollar contract to develop and sustain the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system to Boeing.
"We will honor the decision that the Missile Defense Agency has made," a Lockheed spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.
The development and sustainment contract's (DSC) total value is nearly $3.5 billion, according to a Dec. 30 Defense Department statement, which adds:
This contract was competitively awarded following the receipt of two proposals. The scope of work under this contract includes, but is not limited to: future development; fielding; test; systems engineering, integration and configuration management; equipment manufacturing and refurbishment; training; and operations and sustainment support for the GMD Weapon System and associated support facilities. Work will be performed at multiple locations, including: Huntsville, Ala.; Fort Greely, Alaska; Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.; Schriever Air Force Base, Peterson Air Force Base, Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, and Colorado Springs, Colo.; Tucson, Ariz.; other government designated sites and other contractor designated prime, subcontractor, and supplier operating locations. The DSC period of performance is seven years; December 2011 through December 2018.
Fear not, though, for Lockheed's missile defense work, for in that same contract announcements list MDA awarded the company a four-and-a-half-year, $1.96 billion contract to supply two Terminal High Altitude Area Defense systems and support services to the United Arab Emirates.