Boeing, Lockheed Martin Reveal Partners for GMD Competition

摘要

To pursue a massive contract to continue developing and sustaining the United States' primary territorial missile shield, incumbent Boeing says it will partner with Northrop Grumman to take on challenger Lockheed Martin and its newly announced partner, Alaska Aerospace Corp.rnThe U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is preparing to hold a new competition for a single prime contractor to manage all operations, maintenance and mod-rnernization for the Ground-based Mid-course Defense (GMD) system. The contract is expected to be worth around $600 million a year. The MDA issued a draft request for proposals for the effort in May, and the agency intends to select a prime contractor in early 2011.