Following their creation of a strategic partnership, the Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) team has recently created its System Requirements Review (SRR), and is proceeding to the next step with initial system design, further risk reduction testing, and critical component qualification activities.

Approved by the Missile Defense Agency, the SRR was completed ahead of schedule by the team. This is the first major technical review for the NGI team’s homeland defense interceptor program.

Led by Northrop Grumman, the NGI team’s synergistic partnership takes advantage of the two companies’ overlapping areas of expertise including missile defense, battle management, certified manufacturing capabilities, precision weapons, and advanced defense technologies.

The team took advantage of model-based systems engineering and hardware manufacturing in customer-certified facilities.

It also used its combined resources to conduct internally-funded risk reduction hardware development and testing in order to ensure rapid and effective deployment of the Next Generation Interceptor.

According to Tay Fitzgerald, vice president of Strategic Missile Defense at Raytheon Missiles & Defense, Raytheon’s kill vehicle payloads maneuver in space to destroy missile threats and have achieved 47 successful exo-atmospheric intercepts to date. “Our digital system design approach gives us high confidence in our solution going into the preliminary design review.”

“We’re leveraging our two decades of performance on the current Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI),” said Scott Lehr, vice president and general manager of launch and missile defense systems at Northrop Grumman. “With our combined workforce, extensive expertise, and state-of-the-art facilities, we will deliver a highly capable new interceptor that will protect our nation against long-range missile threats for decades to come.”