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Lockheed Martin Readies For August Tests of Sub Comms Buoy Effort

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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

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By Geoff Fein Lockheed Martin's [LMT] effort to enable submarines to have two-way communications at speed and depth cleared critical design review (CDR) earlier this month and will move to a testing phase in August before delivering engineering development models (EDM) next year, according to a Navy official. The company is developing three capabilities at the same time, two tethered communications buoys and a more autonomous gateway buoy, Brent Starr, the Navy's communications at speed and depth (CSD) principal acquisition…

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