Article: MDA Eyes Developing New Family of Targets For Missile Defense Tests.(Missile Defense Agency)(Brief Article)

By Kerry Gildea

The winner of an upcoming contract to design a new liquid booster target for ballistic missile defense testing will be in a good position to build a whole family of new target vehicles under the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) latest plans to bolster test profiles, industry and DoD officials said this week.

Last year, the Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC), in cooperation with MDA, selected TRW [TRW] and Orbital Sciences [ORB] to design a new liquid booster target for ballistic missile testing (Defense Daily, Oct. 1). Each contractor received a $100 million contract to develop a realistic liquid booster target to test the ...

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