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Northrop Grumman Wins $1 Billion Missile Defense Target Contract

Friday, September 20th, 2019

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Northrop Grumman Wins $1 Billion Missile Defense Target Contract

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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] Orbital Sciences Corp. (OSC) a $1.1 billion contract on Friday to provide missile defense targets. Under the contract, OSC will specifically provide “threat-representative subscale targets with simple and complex re-entry vehicles” plus storage, surveillance, maintenance of delivered hardware and software, and range execution of end items. Work will occur in Chandley, Ariz., and is expected to be finished by September 2027. MDA said the work was competitively procured via FedBizOpps with…

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