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Coast Guard Committed To Schedule For Ending Use of System Integrators

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Thursday, November 12th, 2009

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By Emelie Rutherford The Coast Guard said Tuesday it is fully committed to a schedule for ending its use of lead-system integrators (LSI) as Congress continues to seek legal limits on the service's use of such contractual arrangements. Assistant Commandant for Acquisition Rear Adm. Ronald Rabago said the service continues to assume LSI responsibilities for its Deepwater ship-aircraft-system system modernization effort--formerly steered by a Northrop Grumman [NOC]-Lockheed Martin [LMT] LSI called Integrated Coast Guard Systems (ICGS)--and finding synergies between Deepwater…

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