Pentagon Signs Deals with Boeing, RTX to Boost Missile Interceptor Component Production
The seven-year frameworks are meant to stabilize supply chains and let suppliers expand capacity as demand for SM-3 interceptors rises, officials said.
- On Friday, the Pentagon signed two framework agreements with Boeing and RTX to expand production of critical components for the Standard Missile-3, the Navy's primary ship-launched interceptor against ballistic missiles.
- Demand for the interceptor surged after Navy destroyers first fired SM-3s in combat during an April 2024 Iranian attack on Israel, with The Center for Strategic and International Studies estimating the current inventory at 414.
- These seven-year frameworks allow Boeing to build avionics and ejector assemblies for the SM-3 Block IB and Block IIA before contracts are finalized, providing suppliers certainty to invest in added capacity.
- Michael P. Duffey, Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment, said the agreements place the U.S. defense industrial base on a "wartime footing" to ensure Warfighters receive necessary munitions.
- This strategy mirrors a seven-year deal for PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement seekers, while the Missile Defense Agency recently awarded Raytheon a $745 million contract to produce fully assembled SM-3 Block IIA interceptors.
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Defense contractors Boeing and RTX will increase the production of missile interceptor components under framework agreements reached with the Department of Defense.
Pentagon Expands Missile Interceptor Production With New Boeing, RTX Agreements
The Department of War has signed new framework agreements to expand production of critical hardware for ballistic missile interceptors, the latest step in a broader push to ramp up the nation’s munitions manufacturing capacity. The agreements, announced on Aug. 14 with Boeing and Raytheon—now a division of RTX Corp.—call for increased production of components for the Standard Missile-3 Block IB and Block IIA interceptors. The SM-3 Block IB is d…
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