Lockheed Martin's Next Generation Interceptor Program Completes Subsystem Preliminary Design Reviews

Lockheed Martin validated designs for all elements of the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA).

Through a series of Preliminary Design Reviews (PDRs) of all NGI major subsystems, the company demonstrated it has achieved design maturity and reduced risk for critical technologies. NGI is the future of the MDA's Ground-Based Missile Defense (GMD) system to protect the U.S. homeland against intercontinental ballistic missile threats from rogue nations.

Lockheed Martin said its NGI program is on track for its next major review, the All Up Round PDR.

The NGI program aims to upgrade the kill vehicles for the ground-based interceptors (GBIs), with different vendors, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman competing. They are tasked with meeting more complex threats than those met by Raytheon’s Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicles (EKVs). The NGIs are to be fielded by 2027 or 2028.