The deal exercises options contract originally awarded in March 2017 and increases the contract's total value to $6.3 billion.
The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense is an anti-ballistic missile defense system made to shoot down short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missiles.
In August the MDA remotely launched a THAAD missile in the Marshall Islands.
The work is performed in Dallas, Texas; Sunnyvale, Calif.; Huntsville, Ala., Camden, Ark., and Troy, Ala.
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