Raytheon, as a subcontractor Boeing, was the developer for the RKV program. RKV struggled with insurmountable technical issues resulting in delayed schedules and cost increases. NGI is the result of the Pentagon canceling in August 2019 its Redesigned Kill Vehicle program - which would have upgraded the GBI to be able to more reliably pursue more complex threats. MDA has yet to lay out when it expects the program to reach the critical design review.
The contracts for both teams - worth $1.6 billion in total - last through the critical design review phase of the program. The facility will house early development and integration work, testing of the all-up round and communications systems as well as ground testing “that will allow us to really examine the performance of the interceptor before we fly it,” Sarah Reeves, vice president of the NGI program at Lockheed Martin, told Defense News in an interview just ahead of the June 27 groundbreaking.īoth teams have reported they successfully completed initial baseline reviews at the prime and subcontractor levels and completed system requirements reviews toward the end of last year.īoth Lockheed and Northrop are moving toward a preliminary design review in late 2023. The company is spending $16.5 million to build the new 25,000-square-foot facility, which will open in 2023. Lockheed Martin broke ground on a new Missile System Integration Lab in Huntsville exclusively for the development of NGI and will be co-located with the company’s engineering team.
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That means we have a better sense of where we are as we move forward to upgrade the numbers of interceptors and the capability that we’ll bring forward.”īoth of the competing teams are setting up shop within close proximity to MDA’s Huntsville headquarters. “Right now, both are performing so well that they are anticipating, and our team believes, that we’re tracking towards 2027,” Hill said.
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