The Defense Department is laying the groundwork for a major acquisition effort to modernize and sustain the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program, a planned follow-on effort to the eight-year, $4 billion deal with Boeing to manage all aspects of the guided-missile interceptor program that expires in 2018. The GMD program is designed to defend the nation against a limited attack from North Korean- or Iranian-launched intermediate- and long-range ballistic missiles by intercepting the incoming warhead midway through its flight path. In...
