SM-6 Block IA production contract awarded to Raytheon
NewsJanuary 13, 2025
TUCSON, Ariz. Raytheon (an RTX business) won a contract from the U.S. Navy worth $333 million contract to produce Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) Block IA missiles.
SM-6, as deployed on U.S. Navy ships, leverages the Standard Missile airframe and propulsion system and supports anti-air/anti-surface warfare and sea-based terminal ballistic missile defense in a single solution.
Raytheon notes that in March 2024, SM-6 demonstrated its anti-missile capabilities with a successful intercept of a medium-range ballistic missile target at sea during the Flight Test Aegis Weapon System (FTM)-32 exercise.
Production under this contract will be performed at Raytheon facilities in Tucson, Arizona, Huntsville, Alabama, Andover, Massachusetts, and Dine, New Mexico; it is expected to be completed by 2027.
