General Atomics Gets $30M MDA Reaper Contract

General Atomics has received a one-year, $30.3 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to demonstrate passive configured MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles.

The Defense Department announced that General Atomics’ electromagnetic systems group will showcase the capacities of Reaper at two Ballistic Missile Defense System and five continental U.S. tests.

Tests will occur in Alabama, Arizona and New Mexico.

MDA will obligate $7 million from fiscal 2017 research, development, test and engineering funds at the time of award.

Source: DoD

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