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After Closing Military GPS Deal, BAE Looks To Leverage Production Know-How From New Unit

After Closing Military GPS Deal, BAE Looks To Leverage Production Know-How From New Unit
U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles, from the 335th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, drop 2,000 pound Joint Direct Attack Munitions on a cave in eastern Afghanistan, Nov. 26, 2009. The 335th is deployed to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Michael B. Keller) (Released)..

The addition last month of an entrenched military GPS receiver product business by BAE Systems will provide the company with more than just leading products that helps build out its portfolio in precision strike, particularly in the “kill chain” of missile technology, it brings with it high volume production operations that the company expects to learn from and leverage, a BAE executive said last week. About two-thirds of the 700-employee military GPS business, which BAE is now calling Navigation and…

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