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Lockheed Martin lands $53 mn contract for US Multi-Object Kill Vehicle Technology effort.
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Lockheed Martin lands $53 mn contract for US Multi-Object Kill Vehicle Technology effort
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Lockheed Martin was awarded a $53,052,807 from the US Missile Defense Agency for a 36-month period with no options for the Multi-Object Kill Vehicle Technology Risk Reduction (TRR) effort, the US DoD announced on its website on March, 9, 2017.
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 An artist impression of MDA's Multiple-Objec Kill Vehicle system(Credit: Raytheon) |
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"This contract represents part of the Missile Defense Agency’s technology risk reduction strategy to improve performance and reduce risk for a gimbaled seeker assembly, integrated avionics assembly, component integration and testing, and an advanced seeker. The work will be performed in Sunnyvale, California; Bethesda, Maryland; and Goleta, California," the US DoD said.
Interceptors equipped with a next-generation Multi-Object Kill Vehicle Technology are designed to negate medium and intercontinental-range ballistic missiles equipped with multiple warheads and/or countermeasures in the midcourse attack phase with a single engaging interceptor missile. Instead of pairing one kill vehicle with one interceptor missile, MKV payloads will allow a single interceptor missile to deliver several kill vehicles. In 2015, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency awarded contracts to Raytheon, Lockheed-Martin and Boeing to begin designing what is known as a "Multi-Object Kill Vehicle" or MOKV, which could destroy several objects in space with a single launch. The IS military hopes to begin proof-of-concept demonstrations in late 2017 and a non-intercept flight test in 2018. If successful, the Missile Defense Agency would conduct an intercept test in 2019. |
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