The Boeing Company this week was awarded a $249 million undefinitized contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency, in support of sustaining and developing the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system.
GMD is the nation’s only defense program capable of protecting the entire United States homeland, including Alaska and Hawaii, against long-range ballistic missiles.
Boeing manages this vital national security program out of Huntsville as the prime contractor for the Department of Defense. The company has led the industry team since the inception of the GMD program in 1998 with engineers and experts who work in Alabama.
In fact, Wednesday marked 16 years to the day that the Missile Defense Agency declared the system operational.
As the prime contractor, Boeing designs, produces, integrates, tests and sustains all GMD components deployed across 15 time zones.
The latest modification, according to the DOD, brings the total contract value to $11,768,344,967. This was the second major modification awarded to Boeing for the GMD system this year alone.
In recent months, Boeing made two large deliveries of missile silo units for the program. The company anticipates that five additional silos and silo interface vaults will be delivered this fall, with three more units expected to be delivered in the spring of 2021.
Last year, Boeing earned a prestigious Aviation Week Laureate Award for completing a historic GMD test.
Sean Ross is the editor of Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on Twitter @sean_yhn
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