HQ085622D0001

Jul 2022: Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Huntsville, Alabama is being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum amount of $3,286,745,005. Under this new contract, the contractor will design, develop, test, and field the next Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Weapon System (GWS) Program. The GWS contract covers the systems engineering, design, development, integration, testing, and fielding of GWS software and hardware meeting warfighter needs, new requirements (e.g. Next Generation Interceptor (NGI)) and evolving threats with greater reliability, availability, maintainability and testability than the current system.  Delivery Order 0001 in the amount of $716,090,100; Delivery Order 0002 in the amount of $423,546,873; and Task Order 0001 in the amount of $115,299,142 are being issued at this time. The work will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama. The ordering period is from July 29, 2022, through July 29, 2027. This contract was competitively procured via publication on the Government-wide Point of Entry website with one proposal received. Fiscal 2022 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $76,355,001; and fiscal 2022 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $200,000 are being obligated on this award.  The fiscal 2022 operations and maintenance funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Missile Defense Agency, Huntsville, Alabama, is the contracting activity (HQ0856-22-D-0001).