Boeing has assembled a team, with General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems and Aerojet Rocketdyne, to bid to build the Missile Defense Agency’s Next Generation Interceptor (NGI).

The agency decided last year to scrap its plans to redesign the kill vehicle of its current Ground-Based Interceptors (GBI), that is part of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system designed to defend the homeland against possible intercontinental ballistic missiles from North Korea and Iran.

The MDA is holding a competition, instead, to design a brand new interceptor for the GMD system.

The company has an extensive history with the GMD system in place at Fort Greely, Alaska, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, having held the development and sustainment contract for years. That contract is set to expire in 2023 and MDA is weighing options to break up that contract to foster competition that promotes increased capability…

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