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JLENS Prepares For Operational Evaluation, Completes Early User Testing

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, July 25th, 2013

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JLENS Prepares For Operational Evaluation, Completes Early User Testing

Raytheon’s [RTN] persistent surveillance tethered aerostat and sensors, the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS), has essentially completed development tests recently with a successful Early User Test (EUT) and now prepares for next year’s Operational Evaluation at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. “The EUT is a key milestone to a path to going to Aberdeen and participating in that exercise over the next three years: 2014 through 2017,” Doug Burgess, JLENS program director, said yesterday during…

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