WAAY:
Boeing confirms that the Missile Defense Agency intends to award a sole-source contract to Boeing for a Re-designed Kill Vehicle.
“The Missile Defense Agency intends to award a Cost Plus-Incentive Fee/Award Fee contract modification to the existing Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Development and Sustainment Contract to The Boeing Company,” according to FedBizOps, a Federal contracts notification and information website.
The new kill vehicle effort will fall under the existing Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Development and Sustainment Contract and will include payload development, payload ground testing, integration with the Ground Based Interceptor, flight testing, and eight initial units.
The project is expected to take approximately eight years to complete, which will extend the total DSC period by three years…
