Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. has been awarded a $475 million contract by the US Missile Defence Agency for the first-time development of advanced discrimination algorithms. The US Department of Defence announced the contract award on 5 March.

The majority of the work under this contract is specific to the development, integration, testing and fielding of complex advanced discrimination techniques, operation and sustainment of complex modelling and simulation techniques and tools used to model Ballistic Missile Defense Systems (BMDS) capabilities. 

The efforts associated with discrimination is a first-time development of advanced discrimination algorithms and involves highly complex software development and test requirements.