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MDA To Pick Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle Design, Compete Program Later

Friday, February 27th, 2015

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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is “very close” to approving an acquisition strategy for its Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) in which it will pick, then compete, a government-designed approach selected from industry.MDA Director Navy Vice Adm. James Syring told reporters Feb. 2 the agency will compete EKV production in 2018 after selecting what it likes best from the three companies that offered concepts: Lockheed Martin [LMT], Boeing [BA] and Raytheon [RTN]. The companies would then compete…

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