
The U.S. government notified industry last week it will not assume the prime integrator role for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system after concluding doing so now would add “an unacceptable level of risk.”The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) had planned a follow-on acquisition strategy to the current development and sustainment contract (DSC), called DOSP, to compete future GMD acquisitions. The current DSC is run by Boeing [BA] as prime integrator.The plan included the possibility that the agency would assume the…