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Lockheed Martin Completes Space Fence CDR

Lockheed Martin Completes Space Fence CDR
Diagram of the Space Fence site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Photo: Lockheed Martin.

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has completed the critical design review (CDR) for the Air Force’s Space Fence, which the company said demonstrates the program is technically mature and that all requirements will be met.The three-day CDR was preceded by the delivery of 21,000 pages of design documents and an eight-day design walkthrough to ensure the system will meet performance requirements, according to a company statement. The CDR event featured the demonstration of a small-scale system built with end-item components that detected…

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