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Homeland Security

Lockheed Martin Partners with Maersk for Global MDA Demonstration

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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

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Lockheed Martin [LMT], which has been exploring and developing integrated solutions for Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) for over two years, has partnered with the shipping company Maersk to demonstrate the tracking of large vessels on the world's oceans using existing technology already aboard container ships. Called Neptune, the project has demonstrated that data routinely gathered by large ships using onboard sensors, namely Automatic Identification System (AIS) transponders and receivers, and surface tracking radar, can be sent over long distances, integrated…

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