Boeing and Northrop Grumman will develop and sustain the ground-based mid-course defence (GMD) system for the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA).

Boeing will operate and sustain the deployed weapon system, and develop and test innovative technologies to provide greater reliability.

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Northrop will design and deploy the command-and-control systems to form the backbone of the GMD system, known as GMD fire control / communications (GFCC) products.

The GMD includes radars, other sensors, command-and-control facilities, communications terminals and a 20,000-mile fibre-optic communications network.

There are currently 20 operational interceptors at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and Fort Greely in Alaska to defend the US against long-range ballistic missile threats.

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