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K-MAX Cargo UAS Set To Deploy By End of 2011

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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

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Program officials at Lockheed Martin [LMT] are on track to have two of their new unmanned cargo aircraft systems deployed to Afghanistan, supporting Marine Corps units in country by year's end, according to a senior company official. Company officials are in the process of modifying a number of individual autonomous capabilities on board both aircraft headed to Southwest Asia, and that work is set to wrap up this June, Dan Spoor, vice president for Lockheed Martin's aviation systems, said during…

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