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Aegis BMD Deployment To Europe Yielding Good Feedback, Lockheed Martin Says

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Friday, August 26th, 2011

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The deployment of the USS Monterery (CG-61) earlier this year as part the first phase of establishing missile defense in Europe has already produced information that will allow improvements to the Navy's premier sea-based system, Lockheed Martin [LMT] said recently. Nick Bucci, Lockheed Martin's director of development for the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense program, told reporters that Monterey's deployment in March has allowed the firm to glean new information about the system's performance in a relatively short period of time.…

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