The framework is intended to support higher production rates for both SM-3 variants as demand for the interceptors increases.
Lockheed Martin is preparing to test a space-based interceptor designed to engage ballistic missile threats during the first minutes after launch.
Northrop Grumman Chief Executive Officer Kathy Warden said more than $3 billion in new multi-year framework agreements will increase production and speed deliveries of technologies used in U.S. integrated air and missile defense.
The platform will allow registered organisations to submit concepts and designs directly to programme decision-makers.
Lockheed Martin has received a $211 million U.S. Department of War contract to produce and deliver additional THAAD launchers for the United Arab Emirates.
Lockheed Martin is integrating the PAC-3 missile with the Aegis Combat System to give U.S. Navy surface ships an additional interceptor capability, Chief Executive Jim Taiclet said.
SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace company, has received a $93.7 million U.S. Space Force award to modernize ground-based radar infrastructure.
Northrop Grumman has unveiled Raid Hunter, a new 50mm Gun-Based Air Defense system designed to counter cruise missiles, drone swarms and other high-volume aerial threats.
Lockheed Martin has won a Missile Defense Agency contract to modernize the digital simulation framework used to test the U.S. missile defense system.
Lockheed Martin and L3Harris Technologies have completed a major propulsion test for the Next Generation Interceptor, the Missile Defense Agency’s future homeland missile defense weapon.
Ukraine’s F-16 fighters have shot down about 2,000 aerial targets, including cruise missiles and Shahed drones, according to a senior Ukrainian Air Force officer quoted by the official magazine of the Danish Armed Forces.
Northrop Grumman is positioning an integrated network of space sensors, battle management systems and interceptors as the foundation of its approach to U.S. and allied missile defense.
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