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Lockheed Martin, Navy, MDA Complete Light Off For Second Aegis Ashore System

Gally Articola

Wednesday, November 13th, 2013

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The second Aegis Ashore system reached operational readiness on Oct. 24, completing its “light off” and allowing a team of Navy, Missile Defense Agency and Lockheed Martin [LMT] officials to begin full acceptance testing before disassembling the system and shipping it to Romania next year. The Aegis Ashore system is land-based and mirrors the deckhouse of an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense-equipped destroyer. The modular systems are built in Lockheed Martin’s Moorestown, N.J., facility, tested, and then taken apart and shipped to their final destination--the…

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