Interceptor at launch
Boeing is already installing interceptors for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense missile shield at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Six such interceptors already sit at Fort Greely, Alaska. The Missile Defense Agency hopes to have 18 operationa at Vandenberg by the end of 2005. Other companies involved in the project include Orbital Sciences, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin. – Space News (story not available online)