MDA Expected to Award Targets Contract This Week

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency will this week announce the winner of a more than $1 billion contract for missile defense targets and countermeasures, a Defense Department spokesman said yesterday (see GSN, Dec. 4).

Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon are competing for the contract, which will include the development and production of targets and countermeasures for missile defense testing. The initial four years of the program will be worth more than $1 billion, according to Aerospace Daily.

The decision could come as early as today, according to the spokesman.

Lockheed is also set to conduct the first test launch of its interceptor booster for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program next week, Aerospace Daily reported. The booster test, which has been delayed by accidents, will probably take place Dec. 15, the defense spokesman said.

Orbital Sciences is producing the booster that will be used in the initial fielding of the national missile defense system. The Lockheed system could be fielded later (Marc Selinger, Aerospace Daily, Dec. 9).

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