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Missile Defense Agency Orders Newest SM-3 Interceptors

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, August 9th, 2013

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The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon [RTN] a $218.5-million contract for the production of more than two dozen of the latest Standard Missile-3 sea-based interceptors. The contract comes three months after the MDA and Navy conducted the third successful test of the SM-3 block 1B interceptor. Those tests followed an unsuccessful test of the block 1B in its first attempt nearly two years ago. The contract modification announced by the Pentagon earlier in August calls for building 29…

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