UPI:
Northrop Grumman Space & Missile Systems Corp. has been awarded a $332 million modification to an existing contract for work at the Joint National Center Research and Development for the Missile Defense Agency and the Department of Defense.
The modification, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, would increase the funding maximum from $3.85 billion to $4.18 billion, and may extend task orders until May 2018.
The contract includes integration of Ballistic Missile Defense System, or BDMS, and testing programs for the program. Northrop Grumman will also provide logistical services, wargame and readiness exercises, and the development of doctrine, as well as information technology support for the Chief Information Officer for the BDMS.
