Boeing [BA] on Wednesday detailed the work included in a May contract from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to continue longstanding work on the National Team–Systems and Engineering contract.
The original announcement
said this would have the company continue MDA’s work on “highly specialized follow-on efforts, as required, to achieve Department of Defense mandated capability improvements, through a continuance of these highly complex systems engineering and integration (SE&I)-related efforts.”
DoD also said NT-S will continue to provide complex SE&I data deliverables plus subject matter expert analysis and advanced development efforts “required to fully support the Missile Defense Agency Systems Engineering Plan processes and products.”
Boeing noted it has led the NT-S contract work for over 20 years, so this is a continuation of that effort.
DoD also said the latest contract effort covers requirements for MDA’s effort to refine the layered Missile Defense System architecture incorporation of Homeland Defense radars, electronic protection, Sea Based Terminal Increment 3, integration of the Ground-based Missile Defense System’s (GMD) Next Generation Interceptor (NGI), defense of Guam, and initial Glide Phase Intercept (GPI) capability.
Boeing now says the contract is worth up to $564 million to lead the engineering and integration efforts for the missile defense system, which it refers to as a layered system of systems.
DoD characterized this as “to ensure continuity of critical work to deliver required capability increments,” with a base period of performance lasting through October 2033.
Boeing said it will specifically support the ongoing refinement of the missile defense system, enhancing sensing and electronic protection, integrating the Next Generation Interceptor, strengthening defenses of Guam, and initial counter-hypersonic capabilities with the GPI program.
“We’re proud to continue to lead a best-of-industry team to modernize our nation’s defensive capabilities against current and future missile threats. Our specialized analysis and findings will help ensure more robust and adaptable U.S. missile defenses in an increasingly complex world,” Jake Luvender, Boeing National Team program director, said in a statement.
This NT-S contract is separate from Boeing’s longstanding development and sustainment contract (DSC) for the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system that it held for over a decade.
MDA split that older GMD sustainment contract into five separate contracts to improve performance and save money for the government in an effort called GM Futures (Defense Daily, April 21, 2021).
In 2022, Boeing won a $5 billion five-year contract for the system integration, test, and readiness (SITR) section of GM Futures. That work includes responsibility for overall GMD Element engineering, integration, planning and execution of all needed testing to verify requirement compliance.