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Northrop Grumman Awarded $475 Million Contract To Model Missile Defense, MDA Director Says No GBI Tests In ‘18

Monday, March 12th, 2018

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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the week of March 4, awarded Northrop Grumman a non-competitive contract worth up to $475 million to develop, integrate, test, and field missile defense modeling and simulation tools.The March 5 sole source contract covers task orders from March 2018 through March 2023.The MDA said the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) award includes the development, integration, testing and fielding of advanced discrimination techniques, operation and sustainment of complex modeling and simulation techniques and tools used to model Ballistic Missile…

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