The Defense Department has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to upgrade the Aegis Weapon System to improve Navy cruisers' and destroyers' ability to detect, track, and defeat new intermediate-range threats as well as track and report on maneuvering hypersonic threats. On Oct. 30, the Missile Defense Agency awarded Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Moorestown, NJ, a $724 million sole-source, cost-plus-incentive-fee and cost-plus fixed-fee contract to upgrade Aegis -- which also exists in a land-based form called Aegis Ashore at...
