Missile Defense Agency Selects Northrop Grumman to Lead Homeland Missile Defense Program
01 Août 2022 - 3:30PM
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded an
indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract with a maximum
amount of $3,286,745,005 by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) for
the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Weapon System (GWS)
program. The GWS program defends the United States against
intermediate and intercontinental ballistic missile attacks. Under
this competitively procured contract, Northrop Grumman will provide
design, development, verification, deployment and sustainment
support of new capabilities for GWS.
“As the GWS prime contractor, we will continue to work closely
with MDA to optimize and develop modern missile defense systems to
defend against evolving threats and provide advanced capabilities
for the warfighter,” said Scott Lehr, vice president and general
manager, launch and missile defense systems, Northrop Grumman. “GWS
is part of Northrop Grumman’s land and sea-based missile defense
systems that are enabled by our advanced missile warning and
tracking space satellites. Together, we are delivering end-to-end
capabilities that will protect the United States and its
allies.”
Northrop Grumman is the leading provider of missile defense
solutions. The GWS program award builds on the company’s decades of
mission-proven missile defense innovation, experience and
end-to-end capabilities. The Northrop Grumman-led GWS program team
will primarily be located in Huntsville including our large and
small business partners.
GWS will transform the current ground system component of the
GMD system by utilizing a DevSecOps approach leveraging proven
digital transformation processes to update and modernize legacy
code, warfighter capabilities, and incorporate the Next Generation
Interceptor fleet into the overall GMD system.
Northrop Grumman’s team will bring in the best experts to
design, develop, verify, produce and deploy the most innovative
system possible to address current and evolving threats.Northrop
Grumman is a technology company, focused on global security and
human discovery. Our pioneering solutions equip our customers with
capabilities they need to connect, advance and protect the U.S. and
its allies. Driven by a shared purpose to solve our customers’
toughest problems, our 90,000 employees define possible every
day.
The views expressed are those of Northrop Grumman and do not
constitute an endorsement by the Missile Defense Agency.
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Scott Day |
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480-352-3798 (mobile) |
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480-935-4670 (office) |
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Scott.Day@ngc.com |
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