Boeing expects missile-defense job through 2013

WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) - Boeing Co (BA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on
Tuesday it expected to be awarded a sole-source deal to
continue developing the hub U.S. missile-defense system through
2013.

Boeing officials, speaking to reporters, declined to
estimate the value of follow-on missile-defense work for the
Pentagon.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, in an announcement to
industry on Friday, said Boeing, the current prime contractor
for the ground-based mid-course system, was the "only qualified
source to perform this completion effort within cost and
schedule constraints," according to the statement made public
by Boeing.
(Reporting by Jim Wolf)