The Missile Defense Agency today selected Lockheed Martin and a Northrop Grumman-Raytheon team for initial design contracts for a Next Generation Interceptor, bumping Boeing from the race to build a new guided missile intended to protect the United States before the end of the decade from advanced North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles. The source selection marks a major realignment of U.S. missile defense industrial teaming, with Lockheed Martin elbowing its way into contention to be the new interceptor supplier and...
