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Industry Teams Clear Key Tests With Final JAGM RFP Pending

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Friday, May 7th, 2010

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By Marina Malenic The two industry teams competing for the Pentagon's Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) production contract have submitted responses to a draft solicitation and reported successful early testing this week. Frank St. John, the program director for Lockheed Martin's JAGM development effort, told reporters that the company submitted its comments on the draft request for proposals (RFP) last month. "There were no surprises in that document," St. John said on the sidelines of the Navy League's annual Sea-Air-Space conference.…

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