Raytheon was awarded a sole-source, cost-plus-incentive-fee contract valued at $126,000,000. The SM-3 missile is designed to destroy incoming short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missile threats by colliding with them in space, a concept sometimes described as “hitting a bullet with a bullet.”

This contract modification is to procure the material required to manufacture up to 29 SM-3 Block IB missiles.

Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, with an estimated completion date of September 30, 2016.

About the Standard Missile-3

The SM-3 does not contain an explosive warhead, but instead destroys the threats using sheer impact, equivalent to a 10-ton truck traveling at 600 mph.

• More than 150 SM-3s have been delivered to U.S. and Japanese navies.
• Raytheon is on track to deploy the next-generation SM-3 Block IB guided missile in 2015.
• SM-3 Block IB will be deployed in both afloat and ashore weapons systems.