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Air Force

GMD Contract Award Delayed To End of Year

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

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The Pentagon has delayed by half a year the award of a long-term maintenance contract for its Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system in locations including Alaska and California. The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said yesterday the GMD development and sustainment contract, for which a Boeing [BA]-Northrop Grumman [NOC] team and Lockheed Martin [LMT]-Raytheon [RTN] are competing, is now pegged for November of this year. When MDA released the request for proposals (RFP) for an anticipated seven-year contract in December 2010,…

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