Author: Jane Edwards|| Date Published: September 28, 2018
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded contracts to seven companies and a nonprofit organization to further develop their respective hypersonic weapon concepts.
MDA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday contractors will work on their proposed kinetic and non-kinetic hypersonic glide and terminal defense weapon systems through the contracts worth $1M each.
The awardees are:
BAE Systems
Boeing (NYSE: BA)
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
General Atomics
L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL)
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT)
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC)
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN)
Work will take place at the contractors™ facilities through Feb. 28, 2019.
MDA awarded the contracts through a competitive procurement process and will obligate $227.5K in fiscal 2018 research, development, test and engineering funds to each awardee at the time of award.
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The Missile Defense Agency has awarded contracts to seven companies and a nonprofit organization to further develop their respective hypersonic weapon concepts.
