Raytheon Wins $2.3 billion Sole Source Award for SM-3 Variant

by Mike GrussDecember 22, 2015January 23, 2023

Caption: An SM-3 Block 1B interceptor is launched from the USS Lake Erie during an MDA test and successfully intercepted a complex short-range ballistic missile target off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency awarded Raytheon a $2.3 billion contract modification to build as many as 52 Standard Missile (SM)-3 Block 1B interceptors.

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Mike Gruss is the chief content and strategy officer at SpaceNews. From 2013 to 2016 he was a senior reporter at SpaceNews covering military space. Previously, he was editor in chief of Sightline Media Group and worked as a reporter and columnist for... More by Mike Gruss