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Missile Defense

Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Partner For NGI

Monday, May 4th, 2020

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Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Partner For NGI

A Missile Defense Agency Ground-Based Interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. as part of Flight Test Ground-Based Interceptor (FTG)-15. (Photo: Missile Defense Agency)

Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Raytheon Technologies [RTX] said Monday they are partnering to pursue the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) contract for the domestic U.S. missile defense system. The NGI is the replacement for the Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) program, which was canceled last August due to technical design problems and deficiencies that would have cost years and hundreds of millions of dollars to fix (Defense Daily, Aug. 21). NGI aims to add a planned 20 interceptor…

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