HII (NYSE: HII) has won a seven-year, $78.7 million contract to provide independent advice and assessment support for the Missile Defense Agency’s initiative to develop an integrated and layered system for intercepting adversary missiles. The Department of Defense named Alion Science and Technology the awardee of the competitive cost-plus-fixe...

The Texas-based joint venture between Rothe Development and Ares Technical Services Corp. has won a seven-year, $96.3 million contract to perform cybersecurity test and risk assessment work for the Missile Defense Agency. ROAR JV will help MDA’s security control assessors identify potential risks to business, mission support and warf...

Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will maintain kinetic-force weapon systems for the Missile Defense Agency under a potential five-year, $621.4 million contract. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract comprises personnel, facilities and equipment support for the maintenance of exoatmospheric kill vehicles, the Department of Defense sai...

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will continue to help the Missile Defense Agency maintain complex simulation and modeling platforms under a three-year, $244.7 million contract modification. This award falls under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quality contract and includes work on advanced discrimination approaches that support MDA’s Ballistic...

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) have secured other transaction prototype agreement modifications to extend the companies’ technology development services under the Missile Defense Agency’s Glide Phase Interceptor program. The additional funds would allow the contractors to fine-tune GPI concepts, as par...

Since the 1980s, the United States has been pivoting along an ever-evolving tract of developing technologies to protect against and respond to adversarial missile attacks. The Missile Defense Agency (once the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization) aims to be agile in its stance toward threats from r...

The Missile Defense Agency intends to award a potential 10-year, $4.1 billion follow-on contract to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to extend work on the Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications System. According to a SAM.gov notice for C2BMC Next, Lockheed’s rotary mission systems business is currently the only contractor with in...

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue to refine their proposed concepts of the Glide Phase Interceptor under modifications to their other transaction prototype agreements with the Missile Defense Agency. The companies will further develop their interceptor concepts for MDA’s regional hypersonic missile de...

A joint venture between Modern Technology Solutions Inc. and nou Systems has won a potential $637.1 million contract to help the Missile Defense Agency develop a layered system for defending against missile attacks. Huntsville, Alabama-based nTSI will engineer hypersonic defense, cybersecurity, space and threat systems as part of the cost-plus-fixed...

Steve Richmond, a Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) veteran, has joined BlueHalo as senior vice president of Army solutions business within the company’s defense sector, he announced in a LinkedIn post Sunday. “I am truly honored to be a part of this incredible team and excited about the mission-critical innovations we are developing and deliverin...