ALASKA MISSILE DEFENSE EARLY BIRD WEEKLY

MDA AWARDS CONTRACTS FOR NEXT PHASE OF MISSILE DEFENSE INDUSTRY TEAM WORK, Defense Daily, August 30, 2002. The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) yesterday awarded contract modifications to Boeing and Lockheed Martin to continue their work leading the missile defense national industry team (NIT) toward development of the 2004 testbed capability . . . The work is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2003, MDA said. At that point, follow-on contract options are expected to be awarded. For this most recent award, Lockheed Martin submitted a proposal to MDA for a series of phases, with the first centered on creating infrastructure and new command and control development centers in Huntsville, Ala., and Colorado Springs, Colo. Boeing also devised a comprehensive plan for the systems engineering and integration work. The contract awards cover work on the program for the rest of 2002 and into December 2003 in preparation for the initial 2004 missile defense testbed. That testbed will consist of a five-silo interceptor site at Fort Greely, Alaska, and all of the associated radars, command and control and other associated software and hardware integration and connectivity.

BOEING, LOCKHEED GET MORE US MISSILE DEFENSE WORK, Reuters, August 29, 2002. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency said on Thursday it would pay Boeing Co. another $125 million and Lockheed Martin Corp another $108.7 million for speeded-up work on a planned U.S. missile shield. Boeing was selected in February to head a team doing systems engineering work on antimissile projects. Lockheed was tapped to lead a team developing the battle-management systems plus command, control and communications. The Missile Defense Agency, a Pentagon arm, said the work under the two new awards, details of which were not made public, was expected to be wrapped up by Dec. 31, 2003. The Bush administration is racing to build a ground-based antimissile “test bed” centered in Alaska that it says could provide a rudimentary bulwark against a limited number of incoming warheads by Sept. 30, 2004. The stated goal is to thwart any chemical, biological or nuclear weapons that could be launched by countries like North Korea, Iraq and Iran.

ARMY PICKS BECHTEL-LOCKHEED MARTIN TEAM TO MANAGE MISSILE DEFENSE TEST SITE, Defense Daily, August 30, 2002. The Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) has selected a Bechtel-Lockheed Martin team over two rival bids to manage technical operations and provide logistics support for the Army at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Site at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the site of testing for the Pentagon’s ballistic missile defense program, sources said yesterday. Bechtel, Lockheed Martin and Chugach, of Alaska, formed Kwajalein Range Services to compete for the contract, a Bechtel official told Defense Daily earlier this year. Bechtel has had experience in large construction and engineering projects in the past and has been moving more into the defense arena. Under the teaming arrangement, Lockheed Martin provides the technical expertise for the team, and Chugach is a subcontractor for base support . . .Under the existing contract, which expires at the end of September, Raytheon has provided technical, logistic and base support services for the Army. The support has included everything from facilities, supply and transportation services to base community support needs.

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MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2002

GMD FLIGHT TEST POSTPONED, Defense Daily, August 22, 2002. Saturday’s integrated flight test (IFT-9) for ground-based midcourse missile defense has been postponed for at least 30-45 days while engineers attempt to fix problems with the Lockheed Martin booster rocket motor’s nozzle. This booster rocket is scheduled to be used for two more flight tests: a new three-stage booster rocket is supposed to be ready in time for IFT-11. However, Boeing’s boost vehicle program had undergone so many problems that the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a contract to Orbital in March 2002 to develop an alternate vehicle. The delayed IFT-9 is said to inclu