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The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) a potential seven-year, $2.14B contract to manufacture, assemble and maintain ballistic missile interceptors for U.S. military and undisclosed international defense customers.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a six-year, $932.8M contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to manufacture ballistic missile interceptors for the U.S. government and Saudi Arabia to fullfill a foreign military sales case requirement.

Tony Frazier, executive vice president of global field operations at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) and a four-time Wash100 award winner, said the company is “investing heavily” in its next-generation satellite constellation designed to collect satellite imagery, Inside Defense reported Thursday. "We are through the bulk of the build of what we're calling our WorldView Legion," Frazier told the publication in an interview.

Michael Griffin, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and a two-time Wash100 award winner, said he expects four vendors to submit proposals for the Next-Generation Interceptor program, Defense Daily reported Wednesday.

Vice Adm. Jon Hill, director of the Missile Defense Agency, has said the issuance of a formal solicitation notice for the development of a ground-based missile interceptor is “imminent," Defense News reported Thursday.

Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) reorganized its business into three segments - space infrastructure, Earth intelligence and MDA – in 2019 in an effort to streamline its operating structure and position the company for future growth, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.

Spatial Integrated Systems Inc. (SIS) has been awarded a contract with the US Coast Guard (USCG) to develop an autonomous Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) System to examine the feasibility of improving Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) in the remote Pacific Ocean. 

A consortium led by Toronto-based private investment firm Northern Private Capital has agreed to buy MDA from Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) for approximately $765M.

An industry team led by Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a three-year, $265.2M contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to modernize communications equipment for the ground-based midcourse missile defense system.

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a $1.02B contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to  provide a total of 62 Standard Missile-3 all-up rounds to U.S. and foreign military sales customers.