Federal award (DEFINITIVE CONTRACT, fiscal year 2023)
Recipient: THE BOEING COMPANY
Awarding agency: Department of Defense / Defense Contract Management Agency
Funding agency: Department of Defense / Missile Defense Agency
Period of performance: 2011-04-07 to 2015-03-31
Current total value of award: $48397207
Description: THE MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY (MDA) WILL ACQUIRE THE NEXT GENERATION INTERCEPTOR FOR FIELDING IN 2020 AS AN ELEMENT OF THE BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM (BMDS). THE NEXT GENERATION AEGIS MISSILE (NGAM) WILL BE DESIGNED TO PROVIDE EARLY INTERCEPT CAPABILITY AGAINST SOME SHORT RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILES (SRBM), ALL MEDIUM RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILES (MRBM), ALL INTERMEDIATE RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILES (IRBM) AND NON-ADVANCED INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILES (ICBM) LAUNCHED FROM THE REGION WHERE AEGIS WEAPON SYSTEMS (AWS) (INCLUDING THE AEGIS BMD 5.1 AND MK 41 VERTICAL LAUNCHING SYSTEM (VLS)) ARE LOCATED. THE FIRST PHASE OF THIS ACQUISITION IS THE CONCEPT DEFINITION AND PROGRAM PLANNING PHASE BEGINNING IN 2011, TO BE FOLLOWED BY COMPETITIVE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PHASE IN FY13. THE PURPOSE OF THE CONCEPT DEFINITION AND PROGRAM PLANNING CONTRACTS ARE TO: 1) DEFINE DESIGN OBJECTIVES, 2) PRESENT TRADES TO MEET THAT CAPABILITY, AND 3) OPTIMIZE TRADES TO MINIMIZE COST, SCHEDULE, AND TECHNICAL RISKS.  THE GOVERNMENT CONTEMPLATES THE COMPETITIVE AWARD OF UP TO THREE COST-PLUS FIXED-FEE (CPFF) CONTRACTS RESULTING FROM THIS SOLICITATION, BUT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO MAKE FEWER THAN THREE AWARDS, MORE THAN THREE AWARDS, OR NO AWARD AT ALL.