WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The work will be performed in Logan in the US state of Utah, and will take place over a five year period ending on August 16, 2021, the Defense Department stated.
16 August 2016, 21:53 GMT
"Utah State University Research Foundation [of] Logan, Utah, is being awarded a $99.4 million… contract… [to] perform research, development, engineering, state of-the-art and proof-of-concept [work on] spaced-based sensor systems," the announcement said on Tuesday.
In current drafts of the fiscal year 2017 US National Missile Defense Act, the US House of Representatives and Senate are both preparing to remove the word "limited" from their description of the goals for national missile defense programs, according to media reports.
