The Missile Defense Agency and Boeing installed the ninth Ground Based Midcourse Defense program interceptor in its underground silo at Ft. Greeley, Alaska, on Sept. 18. That makes seven for Alaska and two at Vandenberg AFB, Calif. Now, if they could just finish the tests.
Lockheed Martin projects more than a billion dollars of losses on a classified program, but company officials said April 23 they are confident it will turn profitable by 2028 and become a "franchise" system in the U.S. military.