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Navy/USMC

Kratos And Corvid Win $223 Million Award For Navy Sub-Orbital Flight Vehicles

Thursday, March 7th, 2019

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The Navy awarded Corvid Technologies LLC a $223 million contract on March 4 to deliver sub-orbital flight vehicles over a five-year ordering period, which covers missile defense test targets. This contract covers delivery of hardware, equipment, and components to manufacture and integrate short and medium-range sub-orbital flight vehicles to support the Navy, other government agencies, and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) testing. These will be exo-atmospheric rocket-based vehicles configured to deliver payloads and test articles “into a flight regime of interest…

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