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Lockheed Martin Demonstrates Airborne ISR For E.U.

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Friday, December 2nd, 2011

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently demonstrated an airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system on an optionally piloted plane for E.U. border security, the company said recently. Lockheed Martin is the systems integrator on the Austrian-built Diamond Airborne Sensing DA42 MPP aircraft and is competing for a services contract offered by Frontex, the Warsaw-based E.U. organization responsible for coordinating border security. The goal of the multiple flights was to evaluate the role for optionally piloted or unmanned vehicles for further enhancing…

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