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Business/Financial

Experience Helping Drive Lockheed Martin’s CANES Effort

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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

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By Geoff Fein The two teams competing for the Navy's Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) contract are both taking different approaches to how they look to reduce infrastructure and increase capability across surface ship networks. Both Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] wrapped up successful preliminary design reviews (PDR) earlier this month and are now working toward critical design review and an eventual down select to a single contractor in 2011 (Defense Daily, August 19). Lockheed Martin…

Congress

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Unmanned Systems

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