UPI – Boeing was awarded a $4.1 billion contract to provide development services on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense anti-ballistic missile system.
The new deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, combines with a $6.56 billion award Boeing awarded in January 2018 for upgrades to the GMD system, bringing the total value of the contract to $10.8 billion.
The system is billed by Boeing as the only operationally deployed missile defense system capable of defending the entire United States, Alaska and Hawaii included, from long-range ballistic missile attacks.
