MTSI wins $73M MDA digital engineering project
A September 2023 test of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptors. Missile Defense Agency photo
By
Ross Wilkers
The Missile Defense Agency tasks Modern Technology Solutions Inc. to look at the creation of kill webs for defeating threats.
Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has won a potential five-year, $73.5 million contract to help the Missile Defense Agency stand up a new digital engineering ecosystem for experimentation and evaluation.
Their efforts will focus on the creation of kill webs, or networks that work to bring together various intelligence and warfare capabilities across all domains of conflict.
MDA has tasked MTSI to design the webs to function during all phases of launch, the Pentagon said in its Monday awards digest.
Alexandria, Virginia-headquartered MTSI secured the work by responding to a call for white papers that MDA issued in April 2023 as part of a broad agency announcement.
MDA wrote the announcement to pursue scientific studies and experiments that could help it advance both knowledge and understanding, as opposed to specifically focusing on acquiring a specific solution.
The BAA calls out 13 research areas MDA is interested in receiving white papers on. Some of the broad themes include communications, directed energy, computer science, algorithms, space, modeling and simulation, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and radiation effects.
Work under the contract MTSI won will take place through Aug. 18, 2029.