ManTech to support Missile Defense Agency counterintelligence

ManTech International Corp. has been awarded a $32.1 million contract for counterintelligence work at the Missile Defense Agency.

Under the contract, ManTech will "detect, identify, assess, exploit, penetrate, degrade, and counter or neutralize intelligence collection efforts, other intelligence activities, sabotage, espionage, sedition, subversion, assassination, and terrorist activities directed against the Missile Defense Agency, its personnel, information, material, facilities, and activities worldwide," according to the Department of Defense contract announcement.

The work will be performed in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Dahlgren, Virginia; Huntsville, Alabama; Vandenberg Air Force Base, California; Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico; and the National Capital Region, including Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

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