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Lockheed Martin Delivers ISR System For C-130J

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] has delivered the first Senior Scout signals intelligence system configured for the C-130J to the Air Force, the company said yesterday. The first of four Senior Scout systems for the C-130J will be loaded onto a plane for testing in the next week and is expected to be operationally ready in early 2012, said Tom Boyce, the company’s program manager for airborne collection and exploitation systems. Senior Scout is part of Lockheed Martin’s Dragon family of intelligence,…

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