The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a pair of technology risk-reduction contracts to advance a potential game-changing missile defense capability: developing a single warhead that, once boosted into space, could deploy multiple kill vehicles to intercept more than one enemy ballistic missile. On March 9 and April 3, MDA awarded Lockheed Martin and Raytheon contracts to begin new work in support of a Multi-Object Kill Vehicle the government plans to begin turning into a prototype next year in hopes of...
