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Lockheed Martin Aims At Competitive Missile Defense Opportunities

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Thursday, January 6th, 2011

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By Ann Roosevelt Lockheed Martin [LMT] sees opportunity in Missile Defense Agency (MDA) competitive procurements that come to fruition in 2011, company officials said. For example, in October, the company responded to a draft request for proposals for the Intercontinental-range Ballistic Missile Targets competitive procurement, Doug Graham, vice president of Advanced Programs, Strategic & Missile Defense Systems, said in a teleconference yesterday. "We will be competing for that business," he said. "We will be offering a variant of our LV-2…

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