
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded Raytheon [RTN] its first-ever multi-year contract in a $2.1 billion sole-source contract on March 26 to build Standard Missile-3 Block IB (SM-3 IB) all up rounds for the U.S. and an unnamed Foreign Military Sales (FMS) partner. The contract announcement underscored this is a hybrid of a fixed-price incentive, firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed fee award covering five fiscal years from 2019-2023. MDA spokesman Mark Wright told Defense Daily in an email that “a total of…