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A variant of Raytheon Technologies' Standard Missile-3 system took down an intercontinental ballistic missile during a flight test demonstration led by the Missile Defense Agency, marking the first time such technology intercepted a target outside Earth's atmosphere.

Wes Kremer, who took over as president of Raytheon’s missile systems business on March 30, told the Arizona Daily Star in an interview published Sunday that a lot of the company’s weapons development programs are “threat-driven.”

Raytheon has received a $72.8M contract modification to perform integration, test and qualification work on an updated guidance electronics unit for the Missile Defense Agency. The Defense Department said Thursday the company’s missile systems business has entered into the third phase of GEU procurement efforts as part of the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA program. The modification …

Raytheon‘s missile systems business has received a $66.4 million contract modification to continue to help the Missile Defense Agency integrate and test a ballistic missile defense system as part of the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA program. The Defense Department said Monday the company will support BMD 5.1 engineering, integration, certification and testing efforts …

Raytheon and the Missile Defense Agency have updated the Standard Missile-3 IIA weapon with new software, sensors and infrared seeker designed to handle new threat data and detect hostile targets in space, Defense Systems reported Friday. MDA officials said the Raytheon-built SM-3 IIA missile worked to intercept a medium-range ballistic missile during a …

ITT Exelis has won a $2.96 million contract from Raytheon to produce antennas for the Standard Missile-3 weapon system. Exelis will build the antennas for the SM-3 Block IIA program, a collaborative development initiative between the U.S. Defense Department and Japan’s defense ministry, the company said Monday. “Effective missile defense …