MDA releases portions of NGI solicitation to industry mistakenly marked 'final'

摘要

The Missile Defense Agency is pushing ahead with plans for a Next Generation Interceptor, circulating to industry today salient parts of a request for proposals that is still awaiting approval of the deputy defense secretary, a move that allows companies to get a jump on designing and building a new homeland defense interceptor before the project is formally accepted, according to sources. On April 21, MDA provided industry portions of the NGI request for proposals mistakenly marked "final" in a move intended to give potential bidders insight into government plans for the multibillion-dollar, new-start weapon project, said an agency spokesman.