Raytheon Wins $641 Million Worth Contract For Ballistic Missile Defense System Radar Tests

The Pentagon has awarded Raytheon with a contract worth $641 million to perform Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) test related activities for multiple radar platforms, the Department of defense announced Friday.

Under this contract, the contractor will perform planning, executing, and analyzing sensor performance in BMDS flight tests and ground tests for each test event defined in the BMDS integrated master test plan, the statement said.

In addition, the radar test contract effort also includes sensors modelling and simulation activities to include Open Systems Architecture Sensor Model (OSM) and Open Systems Architecture Signal Injector (OSI) development and maintenance, integration of OSI with hardware-in-the-loop radar representation, integration of OSI and OSM with the simulation framework, verification and validation support, and stakeholder/event support.

The work will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama; and Colorado Springs, Colorado. The ordering period is from Jan. 12, 2018, through Jan. 11, 2023, with a one year option period provided in the contract.

This award is the result of a competitively awarded acquisition in which two offers were received. Fiscal 2017 and 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $3,451,000 are being obligated at time of award, it added.