MDA chooses joint venture for $637M engineering contract
An anti-missile system test being conducted by Israel's Missile Defense Organization and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency at Palmachim Air Base in central Israel on Aug. 13, 2020. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
By
Ross Wilkers
The Missile Defense Agency uses its so-called "TEAMS" procurement program to buy support for layered defenses.
A joint venture involving Modern Technology Solutions Inc. and Nou Systems has won a potential seven-year, $637.1 million contract to help the Missile Defense Agency develop a layered system for defending the U.S.
NTSI will work with MDA to engineer hypersonic defense, cybersecurity, space and threat systems. MDA received one other bid alongside the NTSI proposal for the contract, the Defense Department said in its Friday awards digest.
The agency awarded the contract through its family of administrative and acquisition support contracts known as TEAMS -- short for technical, engineering, advisory and management support.
MDA has also tasked the joint venture to focus on directed energy, testing, analysis, collateral effects and consequence management.
The scope of work also includes support of the U.S-Israeli Cooperative Program, under which Israel maintains a multi-tiered missile defense system. Work will take place through August 2030.
Huntsville, Alabama-headquartered NTSI is a mentor-protege joint venture, where MTSI is the mentor and Nou Systems is the protege.