• Lockheed Martin opened an 88,000-square-foot Next Generation Interceptor production facility in Courtland, Alabama, expanding manufacturing capacity for the Missile Defense Agency.
• The purpose-built Missile Assembly Building 5 is designed to speed production through digital manufacturing, automation, tighter tolerances, improved configuration control.
• The site will produce the Next Generation Interceptor, an open-architecture missile defense interceptor intended to integrate with layered sensors, radars, command systems.
• NGI development is moving toward production, with engagement capability, sensors, software, propulsion demonstrating system-level performance ahead of Critical Design Review.
• Lockheed’s Troy, Alabama, facility will support NGI output through hardware integration, large-scale manufacturing alongside the Courtland campus.

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