Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential one-year, $332 million contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to continue to provide technical integration and operational support services for the ballistic missile defense system.
The modification increases the contract™s total value from $3.85 billion to $4.18 billion and extends the performance period for task orders through May 4, 2018, the Defense Department said Monday.
Northrop™s space and mission systems business will help MDA and DoD define, develop and evaluate integrated missile defense capabilities and assist service personnel to carry out exercises across the areas of wargame command-and-control, missile defense readiness, doctrinal requirements and operational concepts.
The company will also provide information technology support services to the chief information officer under MDA™s Joint National Integration Center Research and Development contract.
