The Missile Defense Agency has raised the bar in the $17 billion Next Generation Interceptor competition, requiring Lockheed Martin and a Northrop Grumman-Raytheon team to demonstrate critical technologies in their respective guided-missile designs at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 or higher, a change from the initial requirement of TRL 5 or higher. The Government Accountability Office, in an audit of the Missile Defense Agency’s 2022 work published today , reveals the previously unreported requirement to raise the TRL threshold in...
