HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Lockheed Martin, the developer of the Next Generation Interceptor designed to protect the homeland from intercontinental ballistic missile threats, is looking for ways to accelerate the program amid a delay, according to Sarah Reeves, company vice president of NGI.

NGI is currently facing a year-and-a-half schedule slip, but a likely funding boost from President Trump’s homeland missile defense shield called Golden Dome could help reverse the slip.

By cutting a competition short to build NGI a year early and selecting Lockheed and its partner, L3Harris’ Aerojet Rocketdyne, to proceed , the Missile Defense Agency accepted some risk in the program intended to provide a more capable interceptor for the Ground-based Homeland Defense System that is poised to counter

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